Diary of an Ordinary Woman, 9781784879846
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An ordinary woman’s diary reveals extraordinary twentieth-century life and war.

Diary of an Ordinary Woman

against war

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    6 January 2025

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Summary

Millicent’s Chronicle: An Ordinary Woman in Extraordinary Times

Here is twentieth-century woman in close-up, coping with the tragedies and upheavals of women’s lives from the First World War to Greenham Common and beyond.

This is the ‘edited’ diary of an individual woman, born in 1901, and a story of the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins keeping her journal, vividly recording the drama of everyday life. From bohemian London to Rome in the …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784879846
ISBN-10:1784879843
Series:Against War
Author:Margaret Forster
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:6 January 2025
Weight:292g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 27mm
About The Author

Margaret Forster

Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster was the author of many successful and acclaimed novels, including Have the Men Had Enough?, Lady’s Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Is There Anything You Want? , Keeping the World Away, Over and The Unknown Bridesmaid. She also wrote bestselling memoirs - Hidden Lives, Precious Lives and, most recently, My Life in Houses - and biographies. She was married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lived in London and the Lake District. She died in February 2016, just before her last novel, How to Measure a Cow, was published.

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