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Nora Hampton (1895-1918): Home and Family part one

Nora’s memoir focuses heavily on the theme of home and family and so I have written two separate posts. This one covers …

‘We had lived there for twenty four years and I will always remember it was great affection and sorrow too. It was …

‘Then father had a stroke on hot summer day whilst painting the outside of a house and died; exactly on my fourth …

David Vincent writes that ‘there was a sense in which autobiographers found themselves unable to write easily about their family life, or …

Before reading about William Wright here, make sure you have checked out Part One. It is important to see how much his …

I have decided to have two separate sections for the theme of ‘Home and Family’ because HJ has memories from his time …

Here you can find material on our working-class autobiographers sorted by themes.

Jean’s mother seems to work hard throughout her childhood in the 1920s to provide a consistently clean home and daily meals. ‘All …

Hello folks! Welcome back to writing lives and welcome to part two of Kay Garrett’s home and family blog posts. This post …

John Burnett writes that the growth of consciousness which occurs in childhood was ‘described in terms of the physical expansion of the …