3rd year English Lit student at Liverpool John Moores University. Currently participating in an online research project on working class #autobiography
Shauna threw herself into researching the life and memoir of Belfast born actor Jack Mcquoid. Here @shughes2019 reflects on what she learned and achieved through her Author Blog @Writing__Lives and on what she found out by speaking with Jack's son https://t.co/B3qc8iOByc
Autobiographer Mary Denison uses the second person pronoun 'you' throughout her memoir of childhood in Headingley, Leeds at the start of the 20th century. @AmberHeyes explores her author's unusual autobiographical style here #writinglives
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I have just completed my final thematic blog post for Writing Lives. For me, this project has been thoroughly enjoyable and a refreshing change from the usual university assignments.
I'm now working on my next blog post on War and Memory. WWI had a huge impact on Hilda's home life as a child and it is important that I address the changes that it brought about for her.
The first of two Education & Schooling posts for @Writing__Lives is up https://t.co/KjtiMZyAAt (Fitting it's mainly about her experience of Sunday School!)
It is interesting that Leslie John Robinson devalued his education due to his parents believing it would be more beneficial for him to be earning money for the family. Please read more in my Education and Schooling blog post. https://t.co/ffXTDEgMch @Writing__Lives
Cannot wait to share my final blog post with you all! I think Mary’s description about food habits in the 20th century is so unique to her memoir. Stay tuned 👀🍓🍎🍔 @Writing__Lives
Learn about Ellen’s family home in my new blog post https://t.co/O9dmCNimP3 Home and Family: Part 1. My retelling of Ellen’s sweet memories of her childhood home provide a pleasurable Sunday read :)
My Habits, culture and belief blog post has just give live. It captures how Mary's habits were not for herself but for her community. Follow the link to read https://t.co/uj6R4COJQu
My next blog post which looks at the first world War has just gone live on this link https://t.co/uj6R4COJQu. This blog post really draws together the entire memoir and brings a close to Mary's childhood. @Writing__Lives