Minnie Frisby (b.1877): Politics, Protests and Class In Memories, Minnie does not discuss any political tendencies she or her family had. Instead Minnie focuses her memoir with references to …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913): Life and Labour The firm I was working for closed down, therefore I was out of work for the first 12 weeks of married life. …
John Edmonds (1911-1984): Life and Labour (Part One) Whilst many working-class autobiographers write centrally about the struggles of working life, talk of labour is ominously absent in John Edmonds’ …
Hilda Ann Salusbury: (1906-1993) Life and Labour Part 2 After leaving her job in Nottinghamshire, Hilda Salusbury was again unemployed and in need of an income. The economic situation was no …
Edith Annie Williams (b. Nov. 1899): Life and Labour (Part 2.) ‘…having been seen on the public platform, I became known to a wider circle of men & women in public life who …
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 …
Margaret Watson (b.1907) Life and Labour After the death of her mother in 1912, when she “was almost six years old” (p.1) Margaret’s childhood was forced to come …
Syd Metcalfe (B.1910): Life & Labour “I remained certain that there must be somewhere far more exciting than the life I was seeing all around me.” Syd Metcalfe, …
