Fermin Rocker (b.1907.): Purpose and Audience Fermin Rocker’s 1998 memoir focuses on his childhood in Stepney before the outbreak of World War One and his positive relationship with …
Ken Hayter (b.1940): Purpose and Audience “All the events in the tales are as true as my memory allows and, whilst the characters are fictional, they can be …
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 …
Mary Denison (1906-1997): Purpose and Audience. ‘The old Vicarage – its bones and frame; every part of it was alive with its own special life and having its …
Nora Lumb (b. 1912): Purpose and Audience Who was Nora targeting as an audience? Nora Lumb sent her short memoir to the historian John Burnett in July 1987 when …
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 …
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 …
John Shinn (1837-1925): Purpose and Audience. I have made a brief and rough sketch of my childhood and life to show some of the hardships and trials that I went …
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 …
