Wally Ward : Purpose and Audience
Wally Ward (born in 1914) wrote his memoir ‘Fit For Anything’ (2.798) during the 1960s, detailing his life as a sufferer of …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913): Reading and (Life) Writing
Percy does not focus on the reading or writing very much at all within his memoir , similarly to Edward S. Humphries. …
Frank Goss (b. 1896): Purpose and Audience
Frank Goss seems to have written his memoir as a reflection of his childhood. He makes no references to his adult life …
Eleanor Hutchinson (B 1915): War and Memory
“I wasn’t afraid of the Germans” (Hutchinson 30) Eleanor Hutchinson was born in 1915 in the midst of the First World War. …
Mary Hollinrake (b. 1912): Home & Family
“Life was very much a family one” (35). I gathered from Mary’s memoir that family is one of the most important aspects …
Jack Vallance (b.1914) – Education and Schooling
Although it is evident in Jack’s writing that he is literate, there is very little mention of his schooling and further education. …
Charles Whiten Sanderson. (1906-1990): Purpose and Audience.
‘Any comments I make are necessarily those as seen through the eyes of a working-class boy and a half educated young man.’- …
Arthur T. Collinson (b. 1893): Life & Labour
Labour was Arthur T. Collinson’s life. Due to a poverty-smothered childhood, Collinson knew that he had to work. He had no second …
John Edmonds (1911-1984): Home and Family
John Edmonds’ memoir, ‘The Lean Years’, is firmly rooted in the home. Whilst he is careful not to fall to nostalgia, it …
Jack Vallance (b. 1914) – Life and Labour
For many working-class people, much like Jack, schooling was cut short in order to start work. As he notes in his memoir, …