Wartime Women
A Mass Observation Anthology
$39.35
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2002
Summary
The Mass-Observation organisation was set up in 1937 with the aim of recording everyday life in Britain. Dorothy Sheridan has plundered its astonishingly rich archives to put together this anthology of women’s experience in the Second World War. What was this experience? How far did it go to liberate women? Was it the opportunity that so many expected, or was it simply six years of deprivation, hard work and pain?
WARTIME WOMEN allows us to explore these questions through the writings…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781842126172 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1842126172 |
| Author: | Dorothy Sheridan |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2002 |
| Weight: | 253g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 107mm x 21mm |
| Series: | WOMEN IN HISTORY |
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A list of treasures here presented could continue almost indefinitely. This is a wonderful book and it is much hoped that it is only the first of several further sections
A list of treasures here presented could continue almost indefinitely. This is a wonderful book and it is much hoped that it is only the first of several further sections * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Irresistible reading. The only defect of this anthology is that it is not twice as long – John Carey on Speak For Yourself
About The Author
Dorothy Sheridan
Dorothy Sheridan has been at the Mass-Observation Archive since 1974.
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