Susan Silvester (1878 – 1968): An Introduction ‘Nearly ninety years is a long time to look back on… but it seemed worth trying to set down some of the …
Mabel Florence Lethbridge (1900-1968):War and Memory Part 2.WW2 ”Women were wanted everywhere, gone were the days when they fluttered fine cambric handkerchiefs from castle walls as the men rode forth …
Molly Keen Childhood Memories (1903-1921): Purpose and Audience The audience that Molly Keen is aiming her childhood memoir at is unclear, as she appears to simply list many of the …
Nora Lumb (b. 1912) Researching Writing Lives Despite being familiar with the blog writing style through part time work as a marketing assistant and past modules in university such …
Charles V. Skargon (b. 1900): Home & Family Now about a year after we were married my wife presented me with a lovely baby daughter. She was to my thinking …
William Wright (b.1846): Researching Writing Lives It took a lot of thinking to decide what type of author I wanted to explore. At one point, I was considering …
Florence Anne Cooter (1912-2004): Biographical entry 181 COOTER, Florence Anne, ‘Seventh Child’, MS, pp.71 (c.71,000 words). Brunel University Library. Born Aug 1912 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. Father worked as …
Letitia Simpson(1926-2012): Life and Labour (Part 1) My Day Before Yesterday speaks vividly about the professions and labour of the people in it. Due to Letitia’s memoir being about …
Life and Labour – George Clifton Hughes, Part One “Although wages had risen during the war, they had now flattened” Although, George Clifton Hughes does not write about his own occupation …
Louise Shore, born 1930s: Home and Family “My ambition was always to be good” (9) Louise Shore grew up in Ewarton, Jamaica. Ewarton is a town in the parish …
