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Norah Elliott (b.1903): Purpose & Audience

Norah Elliott’s autobiography represents her hard-working Grandfather Pilch, her beloved Aunt Susan, her drowned father, her mentally ill mother, her adopted family …

Winifred Till: War and Memory

Winifred only makes reference to the war twice throughout her memoir, and both times she gives very little information about her experience …

Norah Elliott (b.1903)

Norah Elliott Born 2nd Sept 1903. Father, an insurance agent and later a coal miner, was drowned in 1913. Family then forced …