Norah Elliott (b.1903): Home & Family Part One
This is the first instalment of two posts on Norah Elliott’s home and family. If you’re new to the wonderful life of Norah …
Doris Hunt (1900): Life Writing and Class Identity
In ‘Social Atoms: Working Class Autobiography, Subjectivity and Gender’, Regenia Gagnier distinguishes working class autobiographies into six different categories. I believe that …
Jean Court: Illness, Health and Disability
Within Jean Court’s memoir, health and illness are two main themes. She speaks of her family’s brushes with death as well as …
Harold Gill (1919-2003): Habits and Beliefs
Like many children growing up in the early twentieth century, Harold’s childhood was dominated by the church and religion. He writes in …
Fermin Rocker (b.1907) Education and Schooling
‘With a background such as mine, adjustment to the outside world was bound to be difficult’ (Rocker.1998.53.) Fermin was the first in …
Fermin Rocker (b.1907) Home and Family
Part 1: Life at 33 Dunstan House The Artist Fermin Rocker’s 1998 memoir is non-linear and involves many fragmented memories and events …
Nora Isabel Adnams: Habits, Culture and Beliefs
‘Never spend every penny you earn, money commands respect, more so now than ever … but at the same time, be generous …
Frederick Charles Wynne (b.1897): An Introduction
“We lived in a small world. Princes Street was our domain or rather our domain was in Princes Street, next to Victoria …
Edward S. Humphries: Reading & Writing
In his memoir Edward S. Humphries does not focus on reading and writing very much at all. However this has not dissuaded …
Averil Edith Thomas: An Introduction
Averil Edith Thomas was born on 30th April 1893, in Melton Mowbray Leicester, England. Her untitled autobiography, written in 1973 at the age …