Nora Hampton (1895-1918): Purpose and Audience
‘”They” say that it is within the ability of everyone to write one book, at least I have heard it said – …
Amy Gomm (b.1899-1984) : Purpose and Audience
‘The depths of grief, the peaks of happiness – they’re all water under the bridge now, to be forgotten unless we do …
Kay Garrett (B.1899): Purpose and Audience
“I have omitted all the “personal” bits from this narrative because I imagine they are not what is wanted. If you want …
Patricia Saville (B.1933): Purpose and Audience
For my second to last blog post I’ll be briefly talking about Patricia’s target audience and the purpose of her writing. Unlike …
Nora Lumb (b. 1912): Purpose and Audience
Who was Nora targeting as an audience? Nora Lumb sent her short memoir to the historian John Burnett in July 1987 when …
Robert Ward (B. 1907): Purpose and Audience
This post discusses the Purpose and intended Audience of Robert Ward’s memoir ‘A Lancashire Childhood’. You can read in full here, which is …
Patrick McGeown (b. 1897): Purpose and Audience
‘For me there was no prouder title, nothing I wanted more than to be a writing man’ – (190) After a lifetime …
John Shinn (1837-1925): Purpose and Audience.
I have made a brief and rough sketch of my childhood and life to show some of the hardships and trials that I went …
John Edmonds (1911-1984): Purpose and Audience
A visit to his childhood home in 1948 spurred John Edmonds to ‘set down a record of people and memories with the …
John Urie (b. 1820): Purpose and Audience
A lot of John’s audience and purpose for writing his piece comes from his attitude, but also from his professional career. As …