Pat O’Mara (1901-1983): An Introduction
Pat O’Mara’s The Autobiography of a Liverpool Slummy is a published autobiography about life in the city of Liverpool in the beginning …
Martha Martin (b.1871): An Introduction
“For they say we are all on this Earth to fill our own individual Places and to do perhaps what someone else …
Guy Oates (1905-1987) The Years That Are Gone: An Introduction
‘The Years That Are Gone’ is a 750 page, eight-volume, memoir, which explores the history of the Oates family through the life …
Patricia Saville (B.1933) “The Daughter I Never Had”: An Introduction
“War broke out, I remember it so clearly I was playing in the garden when the first German bombers came I was …
Rosa Bell (b.1902): An Introduction
Rosa Bell, born in 1902 as the youngest of seven children to Joseph and Elizabeth Holliday, lived a long and, unfortunately, not …
Annie Ford (1920 onwards): Introduction
‘[A]lthough we are better off by far than our Mothers and Fathers, we seem to have lost something. Shall we say “Lost …
Frank George Marling (1863-1954): An Introduction
It has been said that misfortunes or other untoward events are remembered more vividly than joys. So it was the trouble caused …
Anthony Errington (1778-1848): An Introduction
The reason of my wrighting the particulars of my life and transactions are to inform my famely and the world. I write …
Introducing May Rainer (b. 1909)
‘An historic event always has its details preserved.’ (Rainer, 7) May Rainer was born into a working-class family in Fulham, London in …
Kay Garrett (b.1899): An Introduction
“I was small and had short hair and from the counter clerks in the outside office I learned that I was referred …