Thomas McLauchlan (1888-1979): An Introduction “I do not want people who read this to think I am any different to any other man that has reached the …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904)- Purpose and Audience ‘Most working-class autobiographies begin not with a family lineage or a birthdate but rather with an apology for their authors’ ordinariness’ (Gagnier, …
Mary Norreen Hart (b.1928): Life & Labour ‘There was a sense in which autobiographers found themselves unable to write easily about their family life, or felt that they ought …
Purpose and Audience: Harold Heslop, 1898-1983. Harold Heslop’s autobiography offers a detailed account of his life as the child of a miner, his own experience of working in …
Home & Family: Harold Heslop, 1898-1983. Given the impressive length of Harold Heslop’s memoir, and the clarity and detail in which he writes about ‘life beneath the fields,’ …
George Gregory (b.1888): Purpose and Audience Not once during People > Ideas does George raise the subject of why he’s writing. Neither purpose nor audience is addressed; we …
An Introduction: Harold Heslop, 1898-1983. Harold Heslop was an author and writer of proletarian literature. He wrote several books, such as The Gate of a Strange Field published …
R.W. Morris b.1895: Home and Family. Meals were a preoccupation of most miner’s wives…few miner’s families went hungry. Everything else might have to wait its turn in the …
R.W. Morris b.1895: Researching Writing Lives. I initially chose my author, Richard W. Morris, because he was a coal miner from County Durham. It resonated with me on …
Adeline Hodges (b.1899): Habits, Culture & Belief (Part 2) Following on from my first post on ‘Habits, Culture & Belief’, I’d now like to take a closer look at how ‘leisure’ …
