Mary Denison (1906-1997): Purpose and Audience. ‘The old Vicarage – its bones and frame; every part of it was alive with its own special life and having its …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Jean Court: Researching Writing Lives When I originally chose Writing Lives for one of my final year modules, I had no idea what to expect. Initially, I …
