Doris Hunt (1900): Life Writing and Class Identity
In ‘Social Atoms: Working Class Autobiography, Subjectivity and Gender’, Regenia Gagnier distinguishes working class autobiographies into six different categories. I believe that …
Mary Denison (1906 – 1997): War and Memory.
‘What did you know about the Great War, as it was called – the background to four of your childhood years?’ (63) …
Edna Bold (B.1904): Life & Labour
Edna Bold was an example of many from her time that moved from working-class to lower middle-class. Her memoir entitled THE LONG …
Edna Bold (B.1904): Education and Schooling
Edna Bold was an intelligent member of the working class. Bold’s memoir begins with her life as a child in search for …