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I am currently doing a MA in Creative Writing at Loughborough University. I have previously done some research on working-class women's writing and working-class women's autobiography.* Now I am writing my own autobiography.
I have a working-class background. I live in Whitwick, near Coalville, in Leicestershire. Until the pit closures, during the 1980s, the area was a coal mining community. My dad and two granddads were coal miners. I have been down pit, but not to work, thankfully.
My writing is political. It is based on real people, real lives, and real problems. However, I am not a bloody revolutionary. I do not condone violence or terrorism of any kind, discrimination, oppression, exploitation, the abuse (verbal or otherwise) or the killing of any sort of person regardless of their class, gender, sexuality, race, colour, or religion.
This website is all about working-class women and their writing. (Although, working-class male contributors are also very welcome.) I hope that readers will be inspired by their lives and their writing, as I have been.
I am happy for my work to be utilized as a resource. If you do use my work or quotations, kindly cite me.
There is a different kind of work to be done. Let’s do it together!
Thanks for looking!
Sue Petty.
*My previous research projects:
MA English Literature: Theory and Practice - 'Women and God in Contemporary British Literature'
PhD English Literature - 'Working-Class Women and Contemporary British Literature'
MPhil English Literature - 'Working-Class Women's Autobiography'
Not currently available to read online.
I am currently doing a MA in Creative Writing at Loughborough University. I have previously done some research on working-class women's writing and working-class women's autobiography.* Now I am writing my own autobiography.
I have a working-class background. I live in Whitwick, near Coalville, in Leicestershire. Until the pit closures, during the 1980s, the area was a coal mining community. My dad and two granddads were coal miners. I have been down pit, but not to work, thankfully.
My writing is political. It is based on real people, real lives, and real problems. However, I am not a bloody revolutionary. I do not condone violence or terrorism of any kind, discrimination, oppression, exploitation, the abuse (verbal or otherwise) or the killing of any sort of person regardless of their class, gender, sexuality, race, colour, or religion.
This website is all about working-class women and their writing. (Although, working-class male contributors are also very welcome.) I hope that readers will be inspired by their lives and their writing, as I have been.
I am happy for my work to be utilized as a resource. If you do use my work or quotations, kindly cite me.
There is a different kind of work to be done. Let’s do it together!
Thanks for looking!
Sue Petty.
*My previous research projects:
MA English Literature: Theory and Practice - 'Women and God in Contemporary British Literature'
PhD English Literature - 'Working-Class Women and Contemporary British Literature'
MPhil English Literature - 'Working-Class Women's Autobiography'
Not currently available to read online.
