Charles V. Skargon (b. 1900): An Introduction
During the years following my North Atlantic journeys I often thought about those times, my adventures and dangers and mad rolling oceans, …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913) War and Memory Part 1
Then I received a letter to report to Bulford Camp as Heavy Goods driver in RASC where I did my Army training …
Lorna Kite (b. 1916): Purpose and Audience
Lorna’s motivation for writing lies at the beginning of her autobiography. Her purpose was to show her dedication towards her nursing duties. …
Guy Oates (1905 – 1987): Life and Labour – Part Two
You were lucky to have a job, so you worked hard to keep it, there being no unemployment pay in those days. …
H J Harris (b.1903): Home and Family
‘I can give you the official way my father met his death, but you would have to accept my word for what …
Hilda Ann Salusbury (1906-1993): Purpose and Audience
At the beginning of Hilda’s memoir, she dedicates it to her two grandsons, Julian and Austen who were the children of her …
Annie Lord (b. 1899): Home and Family – Part One
Childhood “[We] use[d] to have a good time dressing up making all our own amusement and Believe me we use[d] to thour[ough]ly …
Lorna Kite (b. 1916): An Introduction
Imagine the dismay, excitement and uncertainty of going ‘all that way’ into the uncertain future. I bade a tearful farewell to my …
Ernest Richard Shotton (Born 1878): Life Writing, Class and Identity
Regenia Gagnier argues that the working class autobiography changed in the way it was written in the 19th century. She argues that “bourgeois …
My life of eighty two years has been a wonderful experience of evolution and revolution…