Alfred Ireson (b.1856): An Introduction
Reading a memoir may be the most intimate of all experiences in the literature world. Like fiction, the reader becomes attached to …
Lilian Westall (born 1893): Home and Family (Part 1)
‘If he was late – midnight, or after, he would be drunk’ (1) The family and the home, for Westall, are expressed …
Cecil George Harwood (1894 – 1983): Habits, Culture & Belief
‘There was never any problem to find something to do. There were about four boys in our gang… It was easy to …
Averil Edith Thomas: An Introduction
Averil Edith Thomas was born on 30th April 1893, in Melton Mowbray Leicester, England. Her untitled autobiography, written in 1973 at the age …
Averil Edith Thomas: Habits, Culture and Belief
Averil uses her memoir as a way of expressing her rural culture’s beliefs and customs. She does so by recreating numerous celebrations …
Jean Court: Habits and Beliefs
Within Jean’s memoir, she often speaks of church. Her mother ‘always attended St. Mary Redcliffe and would slip out of the house …
Daisy Cowper (1890 – 1985): Habits, Culture & Belief
‘After tea, we played “Postman’s Knock” which always seemed a daft pastime to me – why kiss someone you didn’t love?’ The …
Mary Laura Triggle (1888- 1985): Habits, Culture and Belief. (Part One)
They had…a lot of rotten oranges which they intended to throw at the preacher, but that day my father got converted in …
Harry Alfred West (b.1880): An Introduction
“Never, in the whole recorded history of mankind has there been such a rapid and complete transformation in the circumstances of human …