Norah Fearon Knight (1910-2000): Reading & Writing Reading is a particularly prominent theme in Norah Fearon Knight’s unpublished memoir ‘Nostalgia’ and books and poetry are both things she speaks …
Joseph H Armitage (B.1908): Reading & Writing One of the great shames about Armitage’s autobiography is that he does not talk about any of his interests and therefore, says …
Lottie Martin (1899-1976): Reading and Writing Lottie Martin was born in Nottingham in 1899 into a working-class family. Throughout Never Let Anyone Draw the Blinds – her published …
Reading & Autodidacts This is a selection from the large and growing body of work on the social history of reading and autodidact culture. Please …