Home & Family

Arthur P Jacobs: Home and family

The first chapter of Arthur memoir is called, ‘Small Beginnings’, which I think is a perfect representation of Arthur’s early home and …

“Life was very much a family one” (35). I gathered from Mary’s memoir that family is one of the most important aspects …

John Burnett writes that the growth of consciousness which occurs in childhood was ‘described in terms of the physical expansion of the …

“This then was my immediate family: Mam, Charlie, someone called Dad and me. We lived in No. 43 Tagus Street, off Lodge …

‘Until the war ended, there were just the three of us: Mam, Charlie and me. There was the occasional reference to someone …

‘However tender your years, you knew better than to show any resentment to who footed the bill’ (26). Sundays in Charlbury were …

Now about a year after we were married my wife presented me with a lovely baby daughter. She was to my thinking …