Joe Loftus (1914 – 1998): Life & Labour – Part 2
This is the second instalment of ‘Life & Labour’ in the memoir of Joe Loftus. Read ‘Part 1’ here. Joe’s unemployment in …
Emanuel Lovekin (1820-1905): Life Writing, Class and Identity
Regenia Gagnier argues that 19th Century working-class autobiographies did not fit the classic model for autobiographical writing. I think that two of …
Hilda Salusbury (1906-1993): Life Writing, Class and Identity
Class status is not something which Hilda goes into great depth about during the course of her memoir. She tells the reader …
H J Harris (b.1903): Home and Family
‘I can give you the official way my father met his death, but you would have to accept my word for what …
Reading, Writing and Identity, James Ashley (b.1833)
Within James Ashley’s memoir he doesn’t specify particular pieces of literature in which he read. However there are implications to suggest novels …
Education and Schooling: Harold Heslop, 1898-1983.
By the time, Harold Heslop was born into the small mining village of New Hunwick, his father had acquired both of his …
Florence Powell – Life Writing, Class and Identity
In conditions of long work hours, crowded housing and inadequate light, it was difficult enough for them to contemplate themselves, but they …
R.W. Morris b.1895: Purpose and Audience.
Richard W. Morris states quite clearly that he is writing his autobiography in response to a call from the Beamish Museum project, …
Alfred Ireson (b. 1856): Life and Labour – Part One
Considering the sheer wealth of memory that Alf writes about his times of work, it is only natural that it should be …
Bessie Wallis (b.1904): Life Writing, Class and identity.
‘At the start of the Twentieth Century, women had a very stereotypical role in British society. If married, they stayed at home to …