Writing_lives_megan

Hi i'm Megan, a final year LJMU student. I will be using this account to document and discuss my research and blog posts for my module 'Writing Lives'.

[Writing_lives_megan @LivesMegan]

In my last thematic post, 'Class Matters', I draw attention to the hostility between those of different classes in West Melton and how this ultimately effects Bessie's association with her southern relatives. https://t.co/jTaklP00yz #WritingLives #ClassMatters #WestMelton

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Learn about Bessie Wallis' brave father and how he ends up being invalided out of the Marines without a pension after being diagnosed with Tuberculosis during WW1 in my blog post 'War and Memory' https://t.co/QWQqcz9f8N

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@DanielleLJMU The use of so many pictures/photos on this blog post really helps bring out your discussion of John Sawyer's hobbies to life!

[Writing_lives_megan @LivesMegan]

"He preferred to make his Ministry in an area where people were blunt and straight after that he had encountered in the south.” This section highlights the value of community in West Melton in the early 1900's but also the importance of self-sufficiency https://t.co/3108bnKgSy

[Writing_lives_megan @LivesMegan]

How much freedom did working class children in the early 20th century have in contrast to children now? This and more addressed in my blog Habits and Beliefs part 1! https://t.co/D3SqdncrBv

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I discuss Bessie's experiences of being an unpaid servant to her Aunt as a young girl here in part 2 of Life and Labour:
https://t.co/gBsv32QcUi

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Exploring how the father's occupation would dictate the children's social circle and many other related themes in my next blog post: https://t.co/XgzxsSuORR

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My post on Bessie's home and family life is now up detailing the dynamics between her parents and her struggle with being forced away from her home to become a domestic servant
https://t.co/CpXJ4tjvuf

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"Many a man with a family dependent on him only took dry bread to work which had been dipped in vinegar to give it some flavour." Bessie Wallis reflects on the selflessness of the working class patriarch in her Yorkshire mining community of West Melton. @Writing__Lives

[Writing_lives_megan @LivesMegan]

I am reading through Bessie Wallis's memoir for the Writing Lives project and I am amazed at how much detail a person can remember when looking back their childhood. Her recollection of the Yorkshire landscape in the 1910's is so vivid you can almost imagine you're there.