Mrs Yates: (b.1882- 1976) Researching Writing Lives
It has been an amazing experience to be a part of the writing lives project and I really feel like I have …
It has been an amazing experience to be a part of the writing lives project and I really feel like I have …
“My mother used to say this ‘It’s not what your wearing it’s what you make do” Mrs Yates (p.5) Naturally, many authors …
“I never wanted to go near the mill[…] I really didn’t like the mill. At all”– Mrs Yates Across England in the …
“There was only dirty windows, you know. They weren’t like they are now, today. There was no… not much hygiene back then …
“No I never liked the mill. I’ve nothing against… I liked my companions and I had nothing against the mill owners or …
Well we had been on holidays you know, we had a weeks holiday we’d been to Southport, and Blackpool and Morecambe Mrs …
“We had good teachers. Marvellous teachers, like I mean to say because I remember all the things that we was taught then, …
The autobiography of Mrs Yates is interestingly presented in the Burnett Archive as an interview transcript which sets it apart from the …