Guy Oates (1905 – 1987): Researching Writing Lives In my final remarks let me read you these few lines, written many years ago, in one of my more serious moments: …
Guy Oates (1905-1987): Researching Writing Lives Whoever may read the following, try and place yourself in the position of the writer, the youngest but one of a family …
Annie Lord (b.1899): Purpose and Audience “… so I had to carry on the Best I could th[r]ou[gh] life…” Lord, p:1 Regenia Gagnier, author of Social Atoms: Working-Class Autobiography, …
Jack William Jones, born 1900: Politics, Protest & Class Part 1 From the very beginning of his memoir Jack details the history of the London bus sector over a period of 15 years …
John Edmonds (1911-1984): An Introduction ‘My visit seemed to me akin to that of viewing an old friend’s corpse prior to its funeral, and on my journey …
Jack William Jones born 1900: Life & Labour At the beginning of the 20th century poverty was regarded as the natural condition of the labouring poor, those who worked with …
Charles Whiten Sanderson. (1906-1990): Home and Family. ‘I must hasten to add that we were much luckier than many other children, being blessed with splendid parents, who always kept …
Walter John Eugene Elliott (1890- 1977): Home and Family Walter’s memoirs focus on his life up until the Armistice of The Great War, when he was 28. Readers are therefore given …
Eleanor Hutchinson (B 1915): Purpose & Audience “There would be no point in my writing this – all be it rough- account of my childhood unless I was prepared …
John Edmonds (1911-1984): Purpose and Audience A visit to his childhood home in 1948 spurred John Edmonds to ‘set down a record of people and memories with the …
