Alice Maud Chase (1880-1968): Life Writing, Class & Identity
Alice’s life writing best fits into the political narrative form. This is outlined by Regenia Gagnier as being written by those with …
Molly Keen Childhood Memories (1903-1921): Life Writing, Class and Identity
Regenia Gagnier identifies six different types of working-class autobiographies, the most appropriate of which in relation to Molly Keen’s ‘Childhood Memoire’ is …
Florence Powell – Life Writing, Class and Identity
In conditions of long work hours, crowded housing and inadequate light, it was difficult enough for them to contemplate themselves, but they …
Averil Edith Thomas: Life Writing, Class and Identity
‘… pinafores however must have been only for the “lower class”‘ (21) Averil Edith Thomas was very aware of her position in …
Jack Lanigan (1890-1975): Life-Writing, Class & Identity
My life of eighty two years has been a wonderful experience of evolution and revolution, an evolution of having lived from the …
Ernest Richard Shotton (Born 1878): Life Writing, Class and Identity
Regenia Gagnier argues that the working class autobiography changed in the way it was written in the 19th century. She argues that “bourgeois …
Rosa Bell (b. 1902): Life Writing, Class & Identity
“In those days how did we pass our time, you would no doubt say – well it must have been awful – …
Bessie Wallis (b.1904): Life Writing, Class and identity.
‘At the start of the Twentieth Century, women had a very stereotypical role in British society. If married, they stayed at home to …
Thomas R. Flintoff (1904-1994): Life Writing, Class & Identity
The memoir titled ‘Friday The Thirteenth Of May’ (Thomas R. Flintoff, date unknown) best fits into the political narrative form. This is …
Thomas Raymont (1864-1949): Life Writing
Working-class memoirs act as an autobiography about a person’s life as they provide an account of their life. It goes without saying …