Joseph Terry (1816-1889): His Mother the Martyr
Rosey-faced woman with one of the tenderest hearts that ever beat in a human Joseph incessantly showers his mother with compliments; she …
Joseph Terry (1816-1889): Life and Labour
It was a struggle against the fates and each family fought it out the best they could (Roberts 31) Roberts invokes a …
Joseph Terry (1816- 1889): Reading and Writing
My warm thirsty enthusiastic mind drank in the sweetest and purest draughts of knowledge (Terry 33) James Hinton proposed that many of …
Joseph Terry (1816-1889): Researching Writing Lives
The many pages of Joseph Terry’s memoir were initially quite daunting and yet, once I began reading and immersed myself in …
Joseph Terry (1816-1889): Autobiography, Class and Schooling
The school of adversity is the best school for educating (Terry 12) Whilst the 19th-century upper-classes would be flexing their imaginations and attaining …