Wilhelmina Tobias: War and Memory
Wilhelmina Tobias remembers ‘…that fateful August week in 1914, [when] crying women took leave of sons and husbands’ and within a few …
Wilhelmina Tobias: An Evaluation
Choosing a working class memoir to write about from the entry in the Burnett working class archive was challenging to say the …
Wilhelmina Tobias: Home and Family
When Wilhelmina talks about her memories of home and the family it is often in the form of recollections of rituals and …
Wilhelmina Tobias: Life and Labour
Wilhelmina only covers her childhood in her memoir meaning that she covers none of her working life and includes no details about …
Wilhelmina Tobias: Habits and Culture
Aside from the section on her childhood memories, one of the longest sections of Wilhelmina’s memoir concerns what she titles as entertainment. …
Wilhelmina Tobias: Politics and Protest
There is limited mention of politics in Wilhelmina’s memoir, but in spite of this she makes her affiliations clear on the very …
Wilhelmina Tobias: Purpose and Audience
The classic autobiography was, for many years, the preserve of the famous and the middle classes. Autobiographies by acclaimed writers include details …
Wilhelmina Tobias: Education and Schooling
Though Wilhelmina’s childhood is discussed at length in the memoir, her schooldays are only lightly touched upon. Wilhelmina devotes a section to …
An Introduction to Wilhelmina Tobias
An Introduction: Tobias, Wilhelmina Wilhelmina Tobias’s father, a ship worker, speaks from his upturned box to a small crowd outside his …