In the BBC4 documentary, the novelist describes being obsessed by class during his teenage years, and being "ambitious to rise up from – you'd have to say – lower middle class origins".
In the 1990s the satirical magazine Private Eye lampooned John Major, British prime minister 1990 97, in "The Secret Diary of John Major aged 47", a hybrid of the Adrian Mole diaries with The Diary of a Nobody, which made much fun of Major's lower-middle class origins.
Of middle-class origin, Müller became editor of the Social Democratic paper Görlitzer Zeitung in 1889.
The Angry Young Men were a new breed of intellectuals who were mostly of working class or of lower middle-class origin.
As an editor at Esquire and Knopf, Lish (who attended Andover) put a highly identifiable impress on American fiction, some of it by writers of lower-middle-class origin and some not.
But unlike most of the group's members, he did not have an upper-middle-class origin: he spent his childhood in Oaxaca and his teenage years in La Colonia de los Doctores, a working-class neighborhood in Mexico City.
For the most part men of peasant or lower-middle-class origin, the coup protagonists resented the elaborate games pursued by the political elite in Athens, while they sweated it out defending the sacred borders of the motherland in the boredom of provincial garrison towns.
His years there were probably unhappy because, although he was proud of his middle-class origin, he was a constant butt of ridicule because of his ungainly figure, morose manner, and biting tongue; the bitterness of his book reflects the inferiority of his social position.
Despite his mountain-man pretensions, Thomas Grant Hadwin could never wholly conceal his middle-class origins.
Later, it turns out he is fashionably downgrading his Presbyterian middle-class origins in Glasgow.
