Henrietta Burkin (born 1904): Researching Writing Lives “I shall have had a wonderful life, much love, some sadness, but oh, so very much laughter” (5.7) I have thoroughly enjoyed …
Mary Laura Triggle (1888-1985): Education and Schooling. So shall I have to go to school again? (13). Within Mary’s memoir, she talks very little of her school days. …
Winifred Relph (B.1912): Education and Schooling In the mid-19th century, only half the population of England were able to sign the marriage register but, by the early 20th …
Harold Gill (1919-2003): Education and Schooling Harold Gill was something of a model pupil during his time at school. Or at least he was a pupil well-liked by …
Martha Martin (b.1871): Education & Schooling [1/2] ‘…it was while we lived at the Hough that my Father I don’t remember about mother that he got interested in a …
Mary Denison (1906 – 1997): Reading and Writing. ‘You were carried into new worlds, your own mind and imagination were beginning to work’ (30). In the purpose and audience blog …
Mary Denison (1906-1997): Education and Schooling. ‘No desks, no benches, no blackboard, and of, course, no standards. Hardly possible with only two pupils in the class’ (26). Mary …
Miss P Wilson (b.1918-) Family : Early years Family had always played a role of vital significance to Miss Wilsons story. In fact she talks more about her family within …
Thomas Raymont (1864-1949): Education and Schooling ‘My earliest school, attended as soon as I could toddle down the street, was a dame school, the dame being, as I clearly …
