Edward S. Humphries: Purpose and Audience Written from his retirement in the years following 1974, Edward S. Humphries’ memoir explains in great detail a wonderful working class childhood. He writes …
Edward S. Humphries: Reading & Writing In his memoir Edward S. Humphries does not focus on reading and writing very much at all. However this has not dissuaded …
Edward S. Humphries (b.1889) : Introduction Edward Stewart-Humphries was born in Totnes, Devon in 1889. I was fascinated by the brief description of his endeavours in John Burnett’s ‘Useful …
Edward S. Humphries b.1889: Biographical Entry. 361 HUMPHRIES Edward S., ‘Childhood. An Autobiography of a Boy from 1889-1906’, TS, pp.63 (c.35,000 words). Extract in J. Burnett (ed.), Useful …
Edward S. Humphries b.1889: Researching Writing Lives I had originally chosen the Writing Lives module based purely on the fact that I had so much fun on the Prison …
Edward S. Humphries: Home and Family In the memoir of Edward S. Humphries family and home play a tremendous part. Nine out of eighteen chapters in his early memoir …
Edward S. Humphries: Education and Schooling The longish walk to and from school four times a day was in no way considered a hardship; indeed I recall with …
