Florence Anne Cooter (1912-2004): Purpose and Audience
Florence Anne Cooter reveals little in her nostalgic memoir as to why she is writing an autobiography nor does she reveal the …
Wally Ward : Purpose and Audience
Wally Ward (born in 1914) wrote his memoir ‘Fit For Anything’ (2.798) during the 1960s, detailing his life as a sufferer of …
Charles Whiten Sanderson. (1906-1990): Purpose and Audience.
‘Any comments I make are necessarily those as seen through the eyes of a working-class boy and a half educated young man.’- …
Edward S. Humphries: Purpose and Audience
Written from his retirement in the years following 1974, Edward S. Humphries’ memoir explains in great detail a wonderful working class childhood. He writes …
Arthur P Jacobs: Purpose and Audience
In Arthur’s memoir, he very much speaks for himself in a very personal way. His memoir is almost a chain of memories …
John Edmonds (1911-1984): Purpose and Audience
A visit to his childhood home in 1948 spurred John Edmonds to ‘set down a record of people and memories with the …
John Urie (b. 1820): Purpose and Audience
A lot of John’s audience and purpose for writing his piece comes from his attitude, but also from his professional career. As …
Walter John Eugene Elliott (1890-1977): Purpose and Audience
Many working-class people felt that they had to apologise for writing their memoirs. They often felt that they held little importance and …
Henrietta Burkin (born 1904): Researching Writing Lives
“I shall have had a wonderful life, much love, some sadness, but oh, so very much laughter” (5.7) I have thoroughly enjoyed …
George Gregory (b.1888): Purpose and Audience
Not once during People > Ideas does George raise the subject of why he’s writing. Neither purpose nor audience is addressed; we …