Bessie Wallis (b. 1904), Page 2

Bessie Wallis (B. 1904): An introduction

I will be researching and posting about the memoir of Bessie Wallis, one of the autobiographies in the Burnett Collection. To begin …

‘In a few months I would be thirteen years and that would mean leaving school. I dreaded it’. Schooling is oftentaken for …

“What do the working class want with education? They have only to work.” For many of those who lived in West Melton, …

‘My YESTERDAYS were an equal mixture of good and bad… Life was what we made it when I was a child in …

Now that I have discussed the habits and beliefs of children as documented by Bessie Wallis I will now focus on the …

‘ I could forget the family then but even my aunt and uncle had did have some good points. One great joy …

‘I have fought argued and stuck up for myself’ (6, 31). When previously looking at Bessie’s habits and culture, I …

‘At the start of the Twentieth Century, women had a very stereotypical role in British society. If married, they stayed at home to …

‘As a generalization, the less literate the writer, and the less he was involved in specific activities of self-improvement or political activity, …