Frank George Marling (1863-1954): Purpose and Audience
Frank George Marling, born on the 7th January 1863, introduces his memoirs with the accounts of his most vivid “recollections” (p.3). He …
Henrietta Burkin (born 1904): Purpose and Audience
“This was to have been an account of my early youth… but I think I had better commence with my Mother’s early …
Elizabeth Rignall (B.1894): An Introduction
We were all poor them days! But what enjoyment we got out of life! Elizabeth’s grandmother, having regretted sending her daughter to …
Guy Oates (1905 – 1987): Researching Writing Lives
In my final remarks let me read you these few lines, written many years ago, in one of my more serious moments: …
Florence Anne Cooter (1912-2004): War and Memory Part One
Florence witnessed and lived through the effects of two world wars. Memories of war began early in Florence’s life as a child …
Mrs W.E. Palmer (b.1908): An Introduction
Francesca’s thoughts went back down the years to Harting Coombe Farm, near Rogate where she lived with her parents, her sister and …
Winifred Relph (B.1912): Education and Schooling
In the mid-19th century, only half the population of England were able to sign the marriage register but, by the early 20th …
Eva Shilton (b. 1907): An Introduction
Eva Annie Shilton was born on November 6th, 1908, on Colchester Street in Hillfields, Coventry. I felt an immediate affinity with Eva on account …
Researching Writing Lives blog post
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” Virgina …
Frank George Marling (1863-1954): Education and Schooling
There was no national free education in those days but there had been and were being established in some places: Board schools …