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Pure Running Item Info
- Title:
- Pure Running
- Description:
- An autobiographical account of Louise Shore’s life, Pure Running showcases the tribulations of romance, education, work, and migration with a particular focus on her black womanhood. Born in Jamaica in 1930, Shore relocated to London in 1960 and had to build herself up in a space that deemed her unworthy, and in a society that met her with systemic racism. Balancing work with education early on was a struggle, but allowed her to accomplish all she set out to do later in life. Shore says in the introduction that “it is difficult for a woman to write” because of the fear that others will read her work and pass judgment on it. But Pure Running is the culmination of her long-term ambition to write a book, and it is a testament to the power of the personal narrative, both for the author of the narrative and for those who read it. Photographs of Shore accompany her personable yet striking writing style.
- Publisher:
- Centerprise
- Creator:
- Louise Shore
- Date:
- 1982
- Type:
- text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Subjects:
- women work moving migration Centerprise London memoir Black writers class gender housing race relationships women's writing working-class
- Latitude:
- 51.5503752298591
- Longitude:
- -0.0748062744583872
- Location:
- London
- Language:
- English
- Is a Part of:
- Trades Union Congress Library Collections, FWWCP Collection, Region 8 London, Box 3
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Pure Running", Digital Collections, FWWCP
- Reference Link:
- https://library.bc.edu/ds/fwwcp/items/fwwcp08l03065.html