Mrs Miles's Diary

Mrs Miles's Diary
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 359
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ISBN-10 : 9781471125591
ISBN-13 : 1471125599
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mrs Miles's Diary by : Constance Miles

Download or read book Mrs Miles's Diary written by Constance Miles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better times will come again - a fascinating insight into how ordinary people cope in extraordinary circumstances. At the outbreak of the Second World War Constance Miles was living with her husband in the pretty Surrey village of Shere. A prolific correspondent with a keen interest in current affairs, Constance kept a war journal from 1939 to 1943, recording in vivid detail what life was like for women on the Home Front. She writes of the impact of evacuees, of food shortages and the creative uses of what food there was, and the fears of the local populace, who wonder how they will cope. She tells of refugees from central Europe billeted in village houses and, later in the war, of the influx of American servicemen. She travels frequently to London, mourning the destruction of familiar landmarks and recording the devastation of the Blitz, but still finds time for tea in the Strand. In a time when people were asked to put national interests above their own personal comfort and liberty, a time when they, too, were reassured that they’d meet loved ones again, Mrs Miles’s diaries makes for compulsive reading.

Nella Last's Peace

Nella Last's Peace
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Publisher : Profile Books
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9781847651273
ISBN-13 : 1847651275
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Nella Last's Peace by : Patricia Malcolmson

Download or read book Nella Last's Peace written by Patricia Malcolmson and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing, pondering, and disclosing. Nella, 55 when the war ends, writes of what ordinary people felt during those years of privation, hope and the re-building of Britain, providing a moving and inspiring account of the years that shaped the society we live in today. Her diary offers a detailed, moving and humorous narrative of the changing experiences of ordinary people at this time, and thoughts on the aftermath of war and whether 'peace' really meant peace, for everyone.

Nella Last's War

Nella Last's War
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Publisher : Profile Books
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 9781847654083
ISBN-13 : 1847654088
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Nella Last's War by : Nella Last

Download or read book Nella Last's War written by Nella Last and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Next to being a mother, I'd have loved to write books...' Nella Last, Oct 8, 1939 In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating and unique. When war broke out, Nella's younger son joined the army while the rest of the family tried to adapt to civilian life. Writing each day for the "Mass Observation" project, Nella, a middle-aged housewife from the bombed town of Barrow, shows what people really felt during this time. This was the period in which she turned 50, saw her children leave home, and reviewed her life and her marriage - which she eventually compares to slavery. Her growing confidence as a result of her war work makes this a moving (though often comic) testimony, which, covering sex, death and fear of invasion, provides a new, unglamorised, female perspective on the war years.

Nella Last in the 1950s

Nella Last in the 1950s
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Publisher : Profile Books
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9781847652867
ISBN-13 : 1847652867
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Nella Last in the 1950s by : Patricia Malcolmson

Download or read book Nella Last in the 1950s written by Patricia Malcolmson and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. Sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed the first two volumes of her uniquely detailed and moving diaries, written during World War II and its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project, and the basis for BAFTA-winning drama Housewife 49 starring Victoria Wood. This third compelling volume sees Nella, now in her sixties, writing of what ordinary people felt during those years of growing prosperity in a modernising Britain. Her diary offers a detailed, moving and humorous narrative of daily life at a time that shaped the society we live in today. It is an account that's full of surprises as we learn more about her relationship with 'my husband' (never 'Will') and her fears of nuclear war. Outwardly Nella's life was commonplace; but behind this mask were a penetrating mind and a lively pen. As David Kynaston said on Radio 4, Nella Last 'will come to be seen as one of the major twentieth century English diarists.'

How to Be an American Housewife

How to Be an American Housewife
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9781101189245
ISBN-13 : 110118924X
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Book Synopsis How to Be an American Housewife by : Margaret Dilloway

Download or read book How to Be an American Housewife written by Margaret Dilloway and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother-daughter story about the strong pull of tradition, and the lure and cost of breaking free of it. When Shoko decided to marry an American GI and leave Japan, she had her parents' blessing, her brother's scorn, and a gift from her husband-a book on how to be a proper American housewife. As she crossed the ocean to America, Shoko also brought with her a secret she would need to keep her entire life... Half a century later, Shoko's plans to finally return to Japan and reconcile with her brother are derailed by illness. In her place, she sends her grown American daughter, Sue, a divorced single mother whose own life isn't what she hoped for. As Sue takes in Japan, with all its beauty and contradictions, she discovers another side to her mother and returns to America unexpectedly changed and irrevocably touched.

American Housewife

American Housewife
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 126
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ISBN-10 : 9780385541046
ISBN-13 : 038554104X
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Book Synopsis American Housewife by : Helen Ellis

Download or read book American Housewife written by Helen Ellis and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A raucous, whip-smart collection of stories featuring retro-feminist ladies who lunch.” —Elle Meet the women of American Housewife. They wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it’s cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies from the oven. Taking us from a haunted pre-war Manhattan apartment building to the unique initiation ritual of a book club, these twelve delightfully demented stories are a refreshing and wicked answer to the question: “What do housewives do all day?”

101 Things for The Housewife to Do in 1949

101 Things for The Housewife to Do in 1949
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Publisher : Anova Books
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 071349056X
ISBN-13 : 9780713490565
Rating : 4/5 (6X Downloads)

Book Synopsis 101 Things for The Housewife to Do in 1949 by : Lillie B. Horth

Download or read book 101 Things for The Housewife to Do in 1949 written by Lillie B. Horth and published by Anova Books. This book was released on 2007-09-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic piece of 1940s publishing from B. T. Batsford (originally published 1949) reissued to inform and delight all readers about the housewife's lot as Britain emerged from the war.