John Shinn (1837-1925): Home and Family
John was introduced to the workplace at a young age in the cabinet trade with his father and brother. It was common …
Edward S. Humphries: Life and Labour
Edward S. Humphries was a man who did not shy away from work. At the age of eleven his father insisted that …
Minnie Frisby (b. 1877): Purpose and Audience
Regenia Gagnier points out that many working-class writers begin their autobiographies with ‘an apology for their ordinariness’ (Gagnier, 338). However, Minnie’s Memories …
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 …
Edward S. Humphries: War and Memory Part Two
Humphries’ time in World War One was spent fighting Turkish soldiers in Mesopotamia (now known as Iraq). He took many photographs of the …
Edward S. Humphries b.1889: Researching Writing Lives
I had originally chosen the Writing Lives module based purely on the fact that I had so much fun on the Prison …
Harry Dorrell (B. 1903): Illness, Health & Disability
‘Living, is for me a daily battle to be fought against this terminal illness and so very far from the terminus.’ (Prologue) …
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 …
Edward S. Humphries: Education and Schooling
The longish walk to and from school four times a day was in no way considered a hardship; indeed I recall with …
Elizabeth Rignall (B.1894): Home and Family
Mother, placid, imperturbable, accepting everything and turning immediately to cope with any disaster; Father “shot out of a gun end” as we …