Marion Owen (b. 1909): An Introduction ‘Beginning is always difficult […] the only answer is to plunge and see what happens’ Marion Owen’s clear love for nostalgia is …
Marion Owen (b. 1909): Home and Family Part I Home and family life is one of the most important themes within Marion Owen’s memoir. She focuses on her life up until …
Marion Owen (b. 1909): Home and Family Part II ‘We were not unfeeling, but youth is mercifully resilient’ Grief is an extremely personal thing and there is not one singular way …
Marion Owen (b. 1909): Habits, Culture and Belief ‘how glad I am now […] to have had this experience when young’ (Owen, p. 46) Independence was important to Marion and …
Marion Owen (b. 1909): Life and Labour Marion felt extremely unprepared for life outside of education as she felt her artistic talents were all she had to offer. However, …
Nora Isabel Adnams: Life and Labour ‘For the first time in my life I had money problems to be explained to me and just how much money ran …
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 …
Mrs W.E. Palmer (b.1908): Reading and Writing Reading, cycling and dancing were their chief hobbies (3) From Mrs W.E. Palmer’s fond recollections of reading both at home and in …
Mary Norreen Hart (b.1928): Education, Schooling & Reading ‘We were brought up with family values of good manners, respect for authority and a thirst for knowledge through reading’ Education Education …
Marion Owen (b. 1909): Purpose and Audience ‘It seems rather like the ship in the bottle, its in there, but how does one get it out?’ Marion Owen begins …
