Doris Hunt (1900): Life Writing and Class Identity
In ‘Social Atoms: Working Class Autobiography, Subjectivity and Gender’, Regenia Gagnier distinguishes working class autobiographies into six different categories. I believe that …
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 …
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, …
Molly Keen Childhood Memories (1903-1921): Life Writing, Class and Identity
Regenia Gagnier identifies six different types of working-class autobiographies, the most appropriate of which in relation to Molly Keen’s ‘Childhood Memoire’ is …
Stanley Rice (1905-1981): Purpose & Audience
The first thing that struck me when looking at Stanley Rice’s autobiography was the title, “The Memories of a Rolling Stone”: Times …
Thomas R. Flintoff (1904-1994): Life Writing, Class & Identity
The memoir titled ‘Friday The Thirteenth Of May’ (Thomas R. Flintoff, date unknown) best fits into the political narrative form. This is …
Emily Gertrude Lea (1902-1976): Purpose and Audience
Although the purpose of Lea’s memoir is not clearly stated, that she does not begin to recollect her life until she is …
John Castle (1888 – 1819): Life Writing, Class & Identity
Regenia Gagnier’s work ‘Social Atoms: Working-Class Autobiography, Subjectivity, and Gender’[i] discusses the idea of six different narrative forms for working class writers. …
George Clifton Hughes (b.c 1911): Life Writing, Class & Identity
Shut the Mountain Gate is a satirical, yet informative outlook on George Clifton Hughes’s life in the working-class, mining village of Rhosllanerchrugog. …
Katherine Henderson (B.1908): Life Writing, Class and Identity
Regenia Gagnier identifies six types of working-class autobiography. Katherine Henderson’s memoir does not fit directly into one of the six categories, although …