Nora Isabel Adnams: Home and Family ‘The first thing I thought when we went into our OWN door was how small and how crowded, when we were all …
Edward Balne (b. 1895) Home & Family As Edward Balne was an orphan, the only family he ever knew was by ‘the accident of marriage’, Balne p1, and this …
Anthony Errington (1778-1848): Home and Family My mother, Isabella Errington (her maiden name Carr). She was a very very industrious dutiful mother amongst her family. And my farther …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Mary Howitt (1888-1983): Home and Family ‘There were ‘no bounds’ to what a ‘mere ordinary’ father might do for the sake of his children’ (Strange, 2015, 1) …
Norah Elliott (b.1903): Home & Family Part One This is the first instalment of two posts on Norah Elliott’s home and family. If you’re new to the wonderful life of Norah …
Jack Vallance (b. 1914) – Home and Family Although Jack Vallance’s memoir is an extensive piece of writing he offers very little in terms of details regarding his family life, …
Anita Elizabeth Hughes (Born 1892): Home and Family Part Two Anita Elizabeth Hughes’s autobiography is split into two halves and family is a main theme. The first half of the biography focuses …
