Jack Vallance (b. 1914) – An Introduction
Jack Vallance’s personal accounts of boyhood, adolescence and working-class life as an adult demonstrate his resilience as a child of war …
Charles L. Hansford (B.1902): War, Memory and Life Writing
In Charles L. Hansford’s autobiography, “Memoir of a Bricklayer”, war is not a main theme as the writer does not participate in WW1, and …
Charlotte Dorothy Meadowcroft (b. 1901): Education & Schooling
Charlotte Meadowcroft’s handwritten autobiography documents her school years spent in Derby, until 1914 when she left at twelve years old, due to …