A backward glance on Merseyside

Agnes Cowper (1874-1963): Life and Labour

Agnes Cowper grew up in the City of Liverpool with her childhood spent amongst seafaring families like her own. A Backward Glance …

A Backward Glance on Merseyside is the autobiography written by Agnes Cowper when she was seventy-five years old. Agnes was born …

Agnes Cowper spent a large part of her childhood amongst the community of seafaring families like her own in Toxteth Park, Liverpool. …

The fundamental theme that runs throughout Agnes Cowper’s autobiography, A Backward Glance on Merseyside, is that of family. Her mother, father and …

In the author’s preface to A Backward Glance on Merseyside, Agnes Cowper provides an explanation for writing an autobiography. She states that she …

Although there is no mention in her autobiography, A Backward Glance on Merseyside, of any political action taken by Agnes Cowper herself, her …

Agnes Cowper came from a working class, seafaring, Liverpudlian family. On leaving school at the age of fourteen she became an assistant …

In her autobiography, A Backward Glance on Merseyside, Agnes writes little of her own schooling. She said: Of my school days I …

Over the twentieth century, the cultural and recreational habits of the working class began to change. For the first time ever, working …

In A Backward Glance on Merseyside, Agnes Cowper writes of her brother Ernest Cowper. Like John, Ernest moved to Canada. At onset of …