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 …
Jack Vallance (b. 1914) – Purpose and Audience Written as a reflective memoir, Jack Vallance gives little away with regards to writing dates nor the intended audience he had in …
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, …
Amy Gomm (b.1899-1984) : Purpose and Audience ‘The depths of grief, the peaks of happiness – they’re all water under the bridge now, to be forgotten unless we do …
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 …
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 …
Isaac Gordon (b. 1927): Purpose and Audience Isaac Gordon’s autobiography differs from many other working-class autobiographies from this period. His purpose and audience is outlined at the end of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
