Nora Hampton (1895-1918): Home and Family part two
This is my second post on Nora Hampton’s Home and Family, focusing on affective relations and memory. You can read the first …
Jean Court: Home and Family (Part 1)
‘Then father had a stroke on hot summer day whilst painting the outside of a house and died; exactly on my fourth …
Isaac Edward Brown 1880-1974 – Home and Family Life
“My father was one of the younger members of a large family-thirteen in all. (1) Isaac Edward Brown’s first few pages of …
Isaac “Ted” Edward Brown: 1880-1974. Family life Update
Welcome back to my blog about Isaac Edward Brown. For those of you who have been reading thus far, you will notice …
Ada Marion Jefferis (1884-1981): An Introduction
‘People talk of the “Good Old Days.” In some ways they were. But in many ways we live in a better society …
Ada Marion Jefferis (1884-1981): Home and Family
Home and Family is a key theme in ‘The Memories of Ada Marion Jefferis’, which you can read in full here, transcribed by …
Jean Court: Home and Family (Part 2)
Jean’s mother seems to work hard throughout her childhood in the 1920s to provide a consistently clean home and daily meals. ‘All …
Cecil George Harwood (1894 – 1983): An Introduction
‘I think I was about 6 years old when I was asked to join the choir. I think that was the …
Jack McQuoid (1910-1985): Life & Labour
Before Jack found his love for writing he always found comfort in the natural world. Jack’s father passed these values down to …
Jack McQuoid (1910-1985): Home & Family [Part 1]
‘Of course one’s life in this world does not begin as a blank new page. Before the teachers and the preachers start …