Amy Gomm (b.1899-1984) : Reading and Writing Part 1 ‘I don’t remember a time when I couldn’t read’ (31). Amy Gomm’s memoir ‘Water Under the Bridge’ is embedded with her love …
Mary Howitt (1888-1983): Researching Writing Lives As I scrolled through over 200 names on the Brunell Collection of working-class authors, I had an idea of the kind of …
Isaac Gordon (b. 1927): Reading and Writing “When I go to work and I sit down and see everyone reading paper and I cannot read it, …
Thomas Raymont (1864-1949): Reading and Writing ‘Let me confess at once that I was drawn into the ranks of ‘P.T.’s’, not because I loved teaching, but because I …
Amy Gomm (b.1899-1984): An Introduction ‘As for me – I was off to conquer the world.’ (Gomm, 163) This quotation, right at the very end of Amy’s …
Faizur Rasul (b. 1910): Purpose & Audience For nearly all of Faizur Rasul’s autobiography, he is primarily concerned with everything but himself, or in his own words, he has …
Faizur Rasul (b. 1910): Reading & Writing Should this blog be autobiographical, then this topic would no doubt be Faizur Rasul’s favourite one. The constant references to reading, authors, …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913) War and Memory Part 1 Then I received a letter to report to Bulford Camp as Heavy Goods driver in RASC where I did my Army training …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913): Reading and (Life) Writing Percy does not focus on the reading or writing very much at all within his memoir , similarly to Edward S. Humphries. …
Minnie Frisby (b. 1877): Purpose and Audience Regenia Gagnier points out that many working-class writers begin their autobiographies with ‘an apology for their ordinariness’ (Gagnier, 338). However, Minnie’s Memories …
