Daisy Noakes (b. 1908): Home and Family ‘We children looked after ourselves most of the time. We could always ask an older brother or sister if we wanted to …
Daisy Noakes (b.1908): Life and Labour ‘She said my wage would start at my age, £14 a year and I could start my work as soon as I …
Daisy Noakes (b. 1908): Purpose and Audience ‘I wrote it as I thought of it. When I wrote this down I never thought it would get into print. Everybody …
Daisy Noakes (b.1908): Habits, Belief and Recreation ‘John and Arthur living at home had time for hobbies and recreation, where the girls had no opportunity’ (p.31) Growing up surrounded …
Daisy Noakes (b.1908): Life Writing, Class and Identity ‘That Christmas morning we went to Sunday School and Church, and it was depressing for us just listening to the other children …
Pauline Wiltshire: Education, Reading and Writing “I have somewhere to go, something to become, and something to show the world” (70). Pauline’s memoirs were encouraged by an adult …
Olga Pyne Clarke (1915-1996): Class and Identity Although part of the landed gentry of Ireland, Olga’s family was actually ‘very poor’ (p.40) for their cultural standards. As a child, …
A.W Todd: Audience and Purpose “In recording my memoirs of working as a mason, during these years in between the wars, I have endeavoured to relate the …
Susan Silvester (1878 – 1968): Purpose and Audience ‘The things I remember… will most likely be of interest only to those who know the place and the people where I …
Habits & Culture… And we’re going to Wembley Hughes’ memoirs are littered with a common theme, and that common theme is the joy he has …
