Millions like us
1997
First Published
3.90
Average Rating
312
Number of Pages
Hartley, Jenny. Millions Like Us. British Women's Fiction of the Second World War. Oxford, Past Times, 1997. 23.2cm x 15.2cm. IX, 265 (14) pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following Blitz and the Mothers of England/ From Class to Community in Fortress England/ Open House and Closed Doors/ Elizabeth Bowen/ Sylvia Townsend Warner/ E.M. Delafield/ Marghanita Laski/ Inez Holden/ Diana Murray Hill/ Monica Dickens/ Work and the Recalcitrant Factory/ Surveillance, Allegiance, Complicity/ Adverse Images of Women in War/ Anthony Powell/ Henry Green/ Evelyn Waugh/ Rosamon Lehmann/ Letters/ Stella Gibbons/ Elizabeth Taylor/ Jane Oliver/ Edith Pargeter/ Rose Macauley/ Mollie Panter-Downes/ The Indirect Face of War/ Daphne du Maurier/ Virginia Woolf/ War Wounds/ Monica Stirling/ Agatha Christie/ Betty Miller/ Storm Jameson/ Phyllis Bottome/ Clemence Dane/ Olivia Manning/ Nancy Mitford/ Margery Allingham etc. The dramatic changes in women's lives, the strange gains, inevitable strains and ineffaceable wounds, found their way into the fiction of the time, Jenny Hartley's lively account covers a wide range of women writers.
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