Edith Annie Williams (b. Nov. 1899): Education and Schooling (Part 1.)
‘I was no genius, but I seemed to have more than average intelligence.’ (5) Edith dedicates large portions of her memoir to …
Marion Owen (b. 1909): Education and Schooling
Marion Owen’s father was educated at ‘Aske’s Haberdashers School’ (Owen, p. 9) but he decided to take a more creative route. However, …
Doris Hunt (born 1900) : Education and Schooling
Through Doris’s writing it is evident that she is extremely fond of schooling, education and reading. She flourished in school at an …
Mary Denison (1906-1997): Education and Schooling.
‘No desks, no benches, no blackboard, and of, course, no standards. Hardly possible with only two pupils in the class’ (26). Mary …
Mary Howitt (1888-1983): Education and Schooling
‘More than any other factor, how the child’s father earned a living determined its chances of learning to read and write’ …
Doris Hunt (1900) : Purpose and Audience
Doris Hunt starts her memoirs off in a very normal fashion, telling us her date and place of birth, ‘I was born …
Norah Elliott (b.1903): Education & Schooling
A basic educational system was operating in Britain by 1914, and whilst for most schoolchildren it did not take them beyond the …
Doris Hunt (born 1900) : Home and Family
The theme of home and family runs throughout Doris’s autobiography as she discusses her various family homes, her parents, siblings and also …
Jessie Ravenna Sharman (b. 1892): Politics, Protest and Class
There is an omission of any detail regarding politics in Jessie Ravenna Sharman’s memoir, Recollections of Jessie Ravenna Sharman. The way that …
Doris Hunt (1900) : An Introduction
I was born in 1900 in the last year of the reign of Queen Victoria, in Manchester Doris is one of six …