Mrs W.E. Palmer (b.1908): Life and Labour Memories of Long Ago, is a nostalgic account of some of Mrs W.E. Palmer’s childhood years which she spent living at Harting …
Mrs RM Downer (b. 1884): Purpose and Audience At first glance, RM Downer’s autobiography seems to have been written out of a sense of nostalgia. The title, ‘A Bygone Age’, …
Mrs RM Downer (b.1884): Life and Labour (Part 1) RM Downer’s memoir is heavily focused on her career as a dressmaker. As I have explored in a previous post, her purpose …
Minnie Frisby (b.1877): An Introduction ‘By musing and living in the happy past, I am able to forget much of the very painful present.’ (I:1) Minnie Frisby …
Edith Annie Williams (b. Nov. 1899): Life and Labour (Part 1.) ‘Shortly after leaving the grammar school my mother apprenticed me to the dressmaking trade with a local dressmaker’ (8) Many of the …
Alice Pidgeon (b.1898): Life & Labour The depression of the 1930’s, has great significance in Alice Pidgeon’s memoir. Orphaned at just six years of age, Alice and her …
Mrs RM Downer (b.1884): Education and Schooling RM Downer dedicates very little of her memoir to her early memories and school days. As I have explained in other posts, …
Mrs RM Downer (b.1884): Biographical Entry 211 DOWNER, Mrs. R., ‘A Bygone Age’, TS, pp.31 (c.lO,OOO words). West Sussex Record Office. Born 1884. Father: ‘connected with horses’, working …
Mrs RM Downer (b.1884): Life and Labour (Part 2, Social Mobility) In my introductory post I spoke briefly about RM Downer’s experiences of high society, and the opportunities she was given through her …
Mrs RM Downer (b. 1884): An Introduction “Your Grandmother was a lady, and don’t you ever forget that”! (p30) RM Downer was a dressmaker working in the first half …
