Thomas Jordan (B.1892): Politics, Protest and Class
Thomas Jordan grew up on a colliery in Usworth, County Durham and followed his father down the mines aged 14. Although in …
Doris Hunt (1900): Life Writing and Class Identity
In ‘Social Atoms: Working Class Autobiography, Subjectivity and Gender’, Regenia Gagnier distinguishes working class autobiographies into six different categories. I believe that …
Mary Denison (1906-1997): Home and Family (2/2)
‘Did the baby come last night? – with the unbelievable statement that the baby had indeed come but had died’ (53). Mary …
Joe Loftus (1914-1998): Researching Writing Lives
I have thoroughly enjoyed researching and writing about my author Joe Loftus on this module. He was a brilliant author to write …
Mary Norreen Hart (b.1928): An Introduction
“This is the story of my Welsh childhood- shot through with the richness of our community and the jagged edge of poverty and …
Mary Norreen Hart (b.1928): Life & Labour
‘There was a sense in which autobiographers found themselves unable to write easily about their family life, or felt that they ought …
Thomas Jordan (B.1892): Education and Schooling
‘I had never been a very clever scholar… so I was doomed for the pits.’ (Jordan, 2) Thomas attended a church school …
Mary Norreen Hart (b.1928): Politics, Protest & War.
‘Against the backdrop of the economic depression, socialism exerted a strong influence’ Mary does not write much about the political situation of …
Mary Denison (1906-1997): Purpose and Audience.
‘The old Vicarage – its bones and frame; every part of it was alive with its own special life and having its …
Thomas Jordan (B.1892): Reading and Writing
As I have mentioned in previous posts, the memoir of Thomas Jordan are in the form of an oral history interview. We …