Mary Denison (1906 – 1997): Life writing, class and identity.
‘But your nursey years were running to a close, your private school years, your childhood years. All running to a close, coming …
Mary Denison (1906 – 1997): Reading and Writing.
‘You were carried into new worlds, your own mind and imagination were beginning to work’ (30). In the purpose and audience blog …
Mary Denison (1906-1997): Home and Family (2/2)
‘Did the baby come last night? – with the unbelievable statement that the baby had indeed come but had died’ (53). Mary …
Margaret Watson b.1907: An Introduction
“In spite of my many hard times I would not have my life any other way.” Margaret Watson was born in 1907 …
Mary Denison (1906-1997): An Introduction.
‘Church was like home – familiar, accepted, and unconsciously loved.’ (40) Born on the 8th September 1906 in Far Headingley, Leeds, Mary …
Edith Annie Williams (b. Nov. 1899): Life and Labour (Part 2.)
‘…having been seen on the public platform, I became known to a wider circle of men & women in public life who …
Mary Stewart (B.1909-): Life and Labour
“He had been wounded three times, won military medal and 3 others, was R.S.M and had four motherless children and that was …
Olive Doris Gold (1897-1977): Life & Labour
For the most part women did ‘women’s work’, i.e. low-paid work. The sexual division of labour therefore split the working class along …