Norah Elliott (b.1903): Home & Family Part One
This is the first instalment of two posts on Norah Elliott’s home and family. If you’re new to the wonderful life of Norah …
This is the first instalment of two posts on Norah Elliott’s home and family. If you’re new to the wonderful life of Norah …
In ‘Social Atoms: Working Class Autobiography, Subjectivity and Gender’, Regenia Gagnier distinguishes working class autobiographies into six different categories. I believe that …
Within Jean Court’s memoir, health and illness are two main themes. She speaks of her family’s brushes with death as well as …
Like many children growing up in the early twentieth century, Harold’s childhood was dominated by the church and religion. He writes in …
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‘Never spend every penny you earn, money commands respect, more so now than ever … but at the same time, be generous …
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In his memoir Edward S. Humphries does not focus on reading and writing very much at all. However this has not dissuaded …
Averil Edith Thomas was born on 30th April 1893, in Melton Mowbray Leicester, England. Her untitled autobiography, written in 1973 at the age …