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 …
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 …
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 …
Thomas Raymont (1864-1949): Education and Schooling Continued ‘My headmaster, as I learnt years later, wrote in the school log-book that I had been with him eleven years as a …
Bessie Wallis (b. 1904): An Introduction. ‘My YESTERDAYS were an equal mixture of good and bad… Life was what we made it when I was a child in …
Henrietta Burkin (born 1904): Life and Labour “The woman as a worker was a particular site of argument about gender roles. The mobilisation of women in industry… offered up …
Ruth Cox (1890): Education and Schooling ‘I started to work at 13’ (White Knobs Row, p9) Education, particularly the education Ruth received during her time in school, was …
Edward S. Humphries: Reading & Writing In his memoir Edward S. Humphries does not focus on reading and writing very much at all. However this has not dissuaded …
