Isaac Gordon (b. 1927): Home and Family “My body is getting old now. I think everybody should die on them born spot.” (33) Isaac focuses on home life …
Annie Ford (1920 Onwards): Home and Family (Part 2) Annie’s memoir focuses family life throughout her childhood rather than throughout her adult life. This is significant as the purpose of the …
Annie Ford (1920 Onwards): Home and Family (Part 1) Home and Family plays a large part in Annie’s memoir. This theme plays a significance in Annie’s life as she focuses the …
Annie Ford (1920 onwards): Introduction ‘[A]lthough we are better off by far than our Mothers and Fathers, we seem to have lost something. Shall we say “Lost …
Mary Denison (1906-1997): Home and Family (2/2) Did the baby come last night? – with the unbelievable statement that the baby had indeed come but had died’ (53). Mary …
Amy Gomm (b.1899-1984): An Introduction ‘As for me – I was off to conquer the world.’ (Gomm, 163) This quotation, right at the very end of Amy’s …
Leslie John Robinson (b.1929): Purpose and Audience. The reason for writing a memoir can sometimes be detrimental to understanding why the authors have discussed these significant moments in their …
Leslie John Robinson (b.1929): An Introduction. ‘”Begin at the beginning……”‘ (p.20) In his nostalgic, five-part memoir, One Step at a Time, Leslie John Robinson writes with pleasure about …
Bessie Wallis (B.1904) Home & Family ‘I realise now we were one of the luckier families’ (1, J) When it comes to family relationships Bessie withholds little …
Arthur P Jacobs: Home and family The first chapter of Arthur memoir is called, ‘Small Beginnings’, which I think is a perfect representation of Arthur’s early home and …
