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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
'Extraordinary. Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing' HILARY MANTEL In April 1925, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she would keep for the rest of her life, producing over a million words in 45 exercise books. For sixty years, no one had an inkling of her diaries' existence, and they have remained unpublished until now. Jean wrote about anything that amused, inspired or troubled her, laying bare her life with aching honesty, infectious humour, indelicate gossip and heartrending hopefulness. She recorded her yearnings and disappointments in love. She documented the loss of a tennis match, her unpredictable driving, catty friends, devoted cats and difficult guests. With Jean we live through the tumult of the Second World War and the fears of a nation. We see Britain hurtling through a period of unbridled transformation and the shifting landscape for women in society. A unique slice of living, breathing British history, Jean's diaries are a revealing chronicle of life in the twentieth century. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Architecture -- 1. Into a Cow -- 2. Jean Rotherham -- 3. Such a Long Way Down -- 4. Two Girls Who Whispered Once -- 5.A Man Shorter than Myself -- 6. The Popular Idea of Love -- 7. All His Honeyed Deceit -- 8. Of Her Own Accord -- 9. The Young Girl Glider -- 10. Twentieth-Century Blues -- 11.T.S. Eliot Surprised Me -- 12. Like a Knife, He Said -- 13. Israel Epstein -- 14. Into the Woods -- pt. TWO News as it Happens -- 15. The Boys in the Village -- 16. Your Mother in Englant -- 17. Gas-Filled Cell -- 18. The Big Moment Passionate -- 19. Francis -- 20. The Whole World Involved -- 21. What Being a Woman Means -- 22. Asbestos Front -- 23. Hiduminium Aluminium -- 24. Good Dyed Squirrel -- 25. The Robot Plane -- 26. Arsenic Blue -- 27. Plenty of Time for Dick -- 28. Oh, the Swine! -- pt. THREE A Starving Europe -- 29.A Large Bag of Biscuits -- Chocolate and Plain -- 30. No More Ghosts -- 31. The Problem of Palestine -- 32. Of Course He Stayed -- 33. Howl My Heart Out. |
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Note continued: 34. Auragraph -- 35. Guardian Aunt, Rather Exciting -- 36. Destroy, Destroy, Destroy -- 37. To Be Published -- 38.X-Ray Man -- 39. How She Smells -- 40. The Latest Boogie-Woogie -- 41.A Deadly Sting -- 42. Self-knowledge -- pt. FOUR The Village's Book Supplier -- 43. The Colour of Nurses -- 44. Hags and Bitches -- 45. Terminex -- 46. Gloss and Plastic and What Have You -- 47. Slough of Despond -- 48. Now We Know. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pratt, Jean Lucey -- Diaries.
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Women -- Great Britain -- Diaries.
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Women. |
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Diaries.
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| Subject |
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Manners and customs. |
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Diaries, Letters & Journals. |
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS/Letters/. |
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS/Essays/. |
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS/Diaries & Journals/. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Diaries.
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| Added Author |
Garfield, Simon, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781782115700 |
| ISBN |
1782115714 electronic book |
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9781782115717 (electronic book) |
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9781782115700 (hardback) |
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1782115706 |
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