A notable woman : the romantic journals of Jean Lucey Pratt / edited by Simon Garfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pratt, Jean Lucey, author.

Contributor:

Garfield, Simon, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Great Britain--Biography.

Women.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century.

Great Britain.

Pratt, Jean Lucey--Diaries.

Pratt, Jean Lucey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Canongate, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In April 1925, Jean Lucey Pratt began writing a journal. She continued to write until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing well over a million words in 45 exercise books during the course of her lifetime. She wrote about anything that amused her or troubled her, laying bare every aspect of her life with aching honesty, infectious humour, indelicate gossip and heartrending hopefulness. 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 we witness the shifting landscape for women in society. It is a unique slice of living breathing British history and a revealing private chonicle of life in the twentieth century.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.

Contents:

Cover

Also by Simon Garfield

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Dramatis Personae et Dramatis Feles

Part 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

Part 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!

Part 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

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

Part 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

Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782115717

1782115714

OCLC:

928627983