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 …
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 …
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 …
Frederick Charles Wynne- Reading and Writing My sister was engrossed with Dickens and decided to give up her career as a world-renowned pianist and to become an author. …
Anita Elizabeth Hughes (nee Hodgson) born 1892: An Introduction “The only obvious under representation is, predictably, by gender, only one – tenth of the autobiographies have been written by women” (Gagnier, …
Kathleen Hilton-Foord (1903-1998): Reading & Writing ‘I was a prolific reader, and would do anything for a book’ (Handwritten memoir, p.4) In Kathleen’s memoir and poetry there are …
