The Resurrection of Joyce Reason

Joyce Reason, whom I never met, was my Great Aunt.

Born in 1894 she was a writer, an evangelist, a bluestocking, a spinster, a crank, and a missionary.

I began seriously attempting to construct and make sense of the archive of her life in around 2012, since when I have been talking walks, writing stories, looking at photographs and considering the difficulty of ‘knowing’ somebody that you have never met.

My research into Joyce – and through Joyce into the ethical, methodological and archival questions of knowing the life of an Other – has been presented in various conferences and as a forthcoming article in the journal Memory Connection.

It has also been not published in the form of an unpublished novel.

Resurrection of Joyce Reason Publications

Archive, Empathy, Memory

Types: Archives and Documentation, Joyce Reason

Archive, Empathy, Memory: The Resurrection of Joyce Reason   This paper uses the prism of archival, ancestral research to consider the nature of our relationship to the lives of the … Continue reading →