Anita Elizabeth Hughes (Born 1892): War and Memory
The First World War only occupies a few paragraphs in Anita Elizabeth Hughes’s biography. The only aspects of her life she says …
Mary Stewart (B.1909-) : War and Memory
Although Mary lived through both World War One and World War Two she does not choose to discuss either event in much …
R.W. Morris b.1895: Home and Family.
Meals were a preoccupation of most miner’s wives…few miner’s families went hungry. Everything else might have to wait its turn in the …
Mary Denison (1906-1997): Home and Family (2/2)
‘Did the baby come last night? – with the unbelievable statement that the baby had indeed come but had died’ (53). Mary …
Molly Keen Childhood Memories (1903-1921): Home and Family Blog One
Home and family are very significant themes in Molly Keen’s memoire, mainly because the memoire revolves heavily around the experiences of each …
Introducing Hilda Swettenham (B. ~1907)
‘I thought you might be interested in the cutting green to me by a woman from Collyhurst[.]’ (1) The turn of the …
Hilda Swettenham (b. ~1907): Politics, Protest & Class
A commentary on her experiences in the textile industry, Hilda Swettenham’s memoir is a shocking depiction of worker rights and gender politics …
Hilda Swettenham (b. ~1907): Purpose & Audience
Whether she wrote in one sitting or piecemeal, in the daytime or at night, upon a desk or on her daily tram-ride …
Anita Elizabeth Hughes (born 1892): Politics and Protest
Anita Elizabeth Hughes’s autobiography focuses on her personal life fully. Even when big events are happening in Britain such as the First …
Lilian Westall (born 1893): Life and Labour (Part 2)
To tell you the truth I was beginning to feel tired.’ (10) Lilian Westall started working from fourteen years of age. …