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 …
May Rainer. Home and Family. (b.1909) ‘Homes are not neutral things’ (George, 6) May Rainer’s memoir is filled with anecdotes about her family members. She starts her memoir …
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 …
Marion Owen (b. 1909): Home and Family Part I Home and family life is one of the most important themes within Marion Owen’s memoir. She focuses on her life up until …
Ken Hayter (b. 1940) Home & Family (2/2) ‘Until the war ended, there were just the three of us: Mam, Charlie and me. There was the occasional reference to someone …
Pat O’Mara (1901-1983) Home & Family One of Pat’s earliest memories was his mother telling him ‘oh Jesus sufferin’ Christ won’t you take me out of this.’ (O’Mara …
Marion Owen (b. 1909): Home and Family Part II ‘We were not unfeeling, but youth is mercifully resilient’ Grief is an extremely personal thing and there is not one singular way …
Martha Martin (b.1871): Home & Family [2/2] John Burnett writes that the growth of consciousness which occurs in childhood was ‘described in terms of the physical expansion of the …
Ken Hayter (b. 1940): Home & Family (1/2) “This then was my immediate family: Mam, Charlie, someone called Dad and me. We lived in No. 43 Tagus Street, off Lodge …
Guy Oates (1905-1987): Home and Family – Part One The history of some of the men in the Oates family: ‘My Grandfather 1816 to 1872’ (1:66) [Guy’s] grandfather loved to entertain all …
