Lottie Martin (1899-1976): Life and Labour
Never Let Anyone Draw the Blinds by Lottie Martin illustrates, with great honesty, the life and labour of the working-classes. Indeed, there …
Lottie Martin (1899-1976): Contextualising Lottie’s Place of Birth
In recent blog posts, I have explored, predominantly, major themes concerning the life of Lottie Martin. By researching such themes as war, …
Lottie Martin (1899-1976): Researching Writing Lives
After an introductory lecture on Writing Lives, I took away a concept that I wished to explore and contradict in both my …
Lottie Martin (1899-1976): Habits, Culture and Belief
Any reader of Lottie Marin’s Never Let Anyone Draw the Blinds would see that this memoir is primarily concerned with the home …
Lottie Martin (1899-1976): War, Memory and Life Writing
‘The war was now in its fourth year and despite the suffering and rationing the country did put on a good face …
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 …
Lottie Martin (1899-1976): Home and Family
There were many cases of rickets in children and children died too. Our family had its share of death and illness. Lottie …
Reg Beeston (1905-1999) Introducing our authors.
Reg Beeston was born in Stitchcombe in 1905 but moved to the small village of Uley aged two. It is Uley that …