Nora Lumb (b. 1912) Life and Labour Blog “During the post war depression father always had work.” (Lumb, pg. 4) Throughout Nora Lumb’s 12-page autobiographical entry for The Burnett Collection, …
Nora Lumb (b. 1912) Education and Schooling Blog: Part 2 “Fashion prescribed long buttoned or laced up boots and fastening with a major difficulty so school provided practice pieces of leathered joined …
Nora Lumb (b.1912) Education and Schooling Blog: Part 1 “I started school when I was four years old.” (Lumb, pg. 5) Nora Lumb, a working-class citizen born in 1912. Through her …
Hilda Salusbury (1906-1993): Life Writing, Class and Identity Class status is not something which Hilda goes into great depth about during the course of her memoir. She tells the reader …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904) Habits and Beliefs part 1 In this first part of ‘Habits and Beliefs’ I am going to center my discussion on the culture of children in Bessie’s …
Isaac Gordon (b. 1927): Education and Schooling, part one “Well, I went to infants school. I could remember I used to sleep in the class.” (1) Isaac Gordon’s memoir is …
Nora Lumb (b.1912) Home and Family Blog: Part 2 “Family parties were always a joy and with aunties, an uncle and cousins near us it was easy to arrange one. All …
Mary Denison (1906 – 1997): Life writing, class and identity. ‘But your nursey years were running to a close, your private school years, your childhood years. All running to a close, coming …
Nora Lumb (b. 1912) Home and Family Blog: Part 1 “All these relations were so much part of everyday life and gave a wonderful sense of belonging and also a feeling of …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904) Life and Labour part 2 “I didn’t mind going out to work. It was just that girls were so inferior to boys. They were the breadwinners and …
