Love and War in London

Name: Love and War in London
Brand: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
SKU: 9781554587391
Price: 10.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-1-554-58739-1

A Woman’s Diary 1939-1942

de Robert W. Malcolmson (éditeur), Olivia Cockett (auteur)

Maison d'édition : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

août 2009

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Résumé

Olivia Cockett was twenty-six years old in the summer of 1939 when she responded to an invitation from Mass Observation to “ordinary” individuals to keep a diary of their everyday lives, attitudes, feelings, and social relations. This book is an annotated, unabridged edition of her candid and evocative diary.

Love and War in London: A Woman’s Diary 1939-1942 is rooted in the extraordinary milieu of wartime London. Vibrant and engaging, Olivia’s diary reveals her frustrations, fears, pleasures, and self-doubts. She records her mood swings and tries to understand them, and speaks of her lover (a married man) and the intense relationship they have. As she and her friends and family in New Scotland Yard are swept up by the momentous events of another European war, she vividly reports on what she sees and hears in her daily life.

Hers is a diary that brings together the personal and the public. It permits us to understand how one intelligent, imaginative woman struggled to make sense of her life, as the city in which she lived was drawn into the turmoil of a catastrophic war.

Auteur

Olivia Cockett (auteur)

Olivia Cockett was born in 1912 and grew up and lived in London. She started a diary in August 1939 and continued with it until October 1942, which has been published as Love & War in London: A Woman's Diary, 1939–1942.
Robert W. Malcolmson (Edité par)

Robert Malcolmson taught in the History Department at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, between 1969 and 2004. Author of several books, he now lives in Coburg, Ontario, and works part-time as a personal counsellor.