Mary Hollinrake (b. 1912): Home & Family
“Life was very much a family one” (35). I gathered from Mary’s memoir that family is one of the most important aspects …
Florence Powell – Life and Labour
Labour is an overriding theme of Powell’s memoir, and evidently consumed the majority of her childhood. Powell reflects on the hard labour …
Edna Bold (B.1904): Home & Family
“Edna Bold was born into a ‘respectable’ working-class family in Beswick, Manchester, in 1904, neither rich nor poor, but hard-working, somewhat narrow …