Pauline Wiltshire: Introduction
“On my passport I came here with it said ‘retarded’. It makes me have to joke about it… my new passport says …
Pauline Wiltshire: Race and Immigration
“There is good and bad in most people, black or white” (Wiltshire, 1985: 6). Throughout Pauline’s writing, she comments on how coming to England was challenging in terms of adjusting to British culture; her being …
Pauline Wiltshire: Family life in England
“If there is love and strength in the home and we give out children an identity they will be better off.” (Wiltshire, …
Pauline Wiltshire: Researching Writing Lives
I have enjoyed researching further into the life of Pauline, where she came from, what life was like for her and how …
Pauline Wiltshire: Family life in Jamaica
Pauline’s story is marked by her honest approach and so I wanted to do the same in telling her story. It’s clear …
Pauline Wiltshire: Education, Reading and Writing
“I have somewhere to go, something to become, and something to show the world” (70). Pauline’s memoirs were encouraged by an adult …
Pauline Wiltshire: Religion
“from my experience, when I have needed help it is people outside the church who have given it to me” (Wiltshire, 1985: 25). In the preface of Living and Winning, publisher Maggie Hewitt explains from the outset her and Pauline had mixed views and experiences with …
Pauline Wiltshire: Disability
“Although I am disabled, I have a lot of sense and understanding. I can lead a normal life. I can do anything.” …