Molly Keen Childhood Memories (1903-1921): Purpose and Audience The audience that Molly Keen is aiming her childhood memoir at is unclear, as she appears to simply list many of the …
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, …
Thomas Raymont (1864-1949): Purpose and Audience ‘The story of a life so quiet as mine would be of little importance except to personal friends, unless it is so …
Mary Norreen Hart (b.1928): Purpose and Audience ‘for all my family especially my dear husband Ron, our lovely daughters Lindsey and Rosslyn, our supportive sons-in-law Ted and Paul and …
Rosa Bell (b.1902): Purpose and Audience Rosa Bell began writing her memoir, ‘R.M. Remembers,’ as she was nearing the age of 80 in approximately 1981 to 1982 between …
May Owen (b.1896): Purpose and Audience May Owen wrote her autobiographical letter as she neared the age of eighty in the year 1976. Owen most likely decided to …
Claude Robinson (b.1898) – Purpose and Audience Claude Robinson’s memoir depicts his life as a teacher and more broadly ‘the history of the school’ in the town of Jarrow …
Edward Balne (b.1895): Purpose & Audience It seems to me Edward Balne wrote this memoir primarily to make sense of his long adventure of a life – unbereft …
Leslie John Robinson (b.1929): Purpose and Audience. The reason for writing a memoir can sometimes be detrimental to understanding why the authors have discussed these significant moments in their …
Patricia Saville (B.1933): Purpose and Audience For my second to last blog post I’ll be briefly talking about Patricia’s target audience and the purpose of her writing. Unlike …
