Amy Gomm (b.1899-1984) : Purpose and Audience
‘The depths of grief, the peaks of happiness – they’re all water under the bridge now, to be forgotten unless we do …
Nora Lumb (b. 1912): Purpose and Audience
Who was Nora targeting as an audience? Nora Lumb sent her short memoir to the historian John Burnett in July 1987 when …
Kay Garrett (B.1899): Purpose and Audience
“I have omitted all the “personal” bits from this narrative because I imagine they are not what is wanted. If you want …
John Shinn (1837-1925): Purpose and Audience.
I have made a brief and rough sketch of my childhood and life to show some of the hardships and trials that I went …
John Edmonds (1911-1984): Purpose and Audience
A visit to his childhood home in 1948 spurred John Edmonds to ‘set down a record of people and memories with the …
Pat O’Mara (1901-1983) Purpose and Audience
There is no denying that Pat found pleasure in his writing. Before the publication of The Autobiography of a Liverpool Slummy, he had …
Jack Vallance (b. 1914) – Purpose and Audience
Written as a reflective memoir, Jack Vallance gives little away with regards to writing dates nor the intended audience he had in …
May Jones: Purpose and Audience
“The little village where I lived was on the outskirts of a large manufacturing town, where all the mills found work for …
Ken Hayter (b.1940): Purpose & Audience
“All the events in the tales are as true as my memory allows and, whilst the characters are fictional, they can be …
Isaac Gordon (b. 1927): Purpose and Audience
Isaac Gordon’s autobiography differs from many other working-class autobiographies from this period. His purpose and audience is outlined at the end of …