Winifred Till: Researching Writing Lives Researching my author’s life and writing has taught me how valuable working class writing/memoirs are in understanding and learning about social …
Jean Court: Home and Family (Part 1) ‘Then father had a stroke on hot summer day whilst painting the outside of a house and died; exactly on my fourth …
Nora Isabel Adnams: Reading and Writing ‘If wet in the afternoon and we had to stay in, we would have word-making, letters cut out in cardboard, but we …
Nora Isabel Adnams (B. 1901): An Introduction MY MEMOIRS OF DR. BARNARDO’S HOME, BARKINGSIDE, ESSEX 1904 to June 1911 By Nora Isabel Adnams, nee Brazier. ‘We were placed in …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904) Education & Schooling ‘In a few months I would be thirteen years and that would mean leaving school. I dreaded it’. Schooling is oftentaken for …
Introducing Jean Court (b.1923) ‘Mary my sister was a dainty neat child but I was just the opposite, a real scruff.’ (‘Living in the Lane’, p. …
Lilian Westall (born 1893): Life and Labour (Part 2) To tell you the truth I was beginning to feel tired.’ (10) Lilian Westall started working from fourteen years of age. …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904) Reading, Writing & Identity ‘ I could forget the family then but even my aunt and uncle had did have some good points. One great joy …
Jean Court: Home and Family (Part 2) Jean’s mother seems to work hard throughout her childhood in the 1920s to provide a consistently clean home and daily meals. ‘All …
Mrs W.E. Palmer (b.1908): Life and Labour Memories of Long Ago, is a nostalgic account of some of Mrs W.E. Palmer’s childhood years which she spent living at Harting …
