Harry Young (B.1901-1996): Life Writing, Class & Identity
In a wide sense, Harry’s memoirs recount many rare experiences and opportunities which he felt lucky to experience and these memoirs are …
Reg Beeston (1905-1999) Life writing, class & identity
http://www.gloswheelcarriage.co.uk/ “Such class-bound notions of the self have resulted in working class auto-biographies being relegated to illustrating the psychological effects of social …
Hymie Fagan (1903-1988): War, Memory & Life Writing
“Chauvinism flourished” (39) Hymie Fagan lived through the First and Second World War. He remembers the First World War spreading “huge waves …
John Castle (1888 – 1819): Life Writing, Class & Identity
Regenia Gagnier’s work ‘Social Atoms: Working-Class Autobiography, Subjectivity, and Gender’[i] discusses the idea of six different narrative forms for working class writers. …
Edna Bold (B.1904): Life Writing, Class & Identity
Self-examination The narrative form that Bold most uses is that of self-examination. Regina Gagnier saw this narrative form as incorporating the “value …
Alice Pidgeon (b.1898): Life Writing, Class & Identity
‘With minimal self-consciousness, they preserve memories of a way of life that is changing or has already ceased to be.’[1] Regenia Gagnier …
Phyllis L. Buss (1902): Life Writing, Class & Identity
“I am certain that those were the happiest years of my life.” (p12) Phyllis L. Buss’ memoir fits into the category of …
Leslie John Robinson (b.1929): Life Writing, Class & Identity
Perhaps unsurprisingly the six types of autobiographical working class writing theorised in Regenia Gagnier’s ‘Social Atoms: Working-Class Autobiography, Subjectivity, and Gender.’ do not apply …
Charlotte Dorothy Meadowcroft (b. 1901): Life Writing, Class & Identity
Regenia Gagnier argues that there are six definitive types of working-class autobiography. I was sceptical whether Charlotte Dorothy Meadowcroft’s (B. 1901, Derbyshire) …
George Clifton Hughes (b.c 1911): Life Writing, Class & Identity
Shut the Mountain Gate is a satirical, yet informative outlook on George Clifton Hughes’s life in the working-class, mining village of Rhosllanerchrugog. …