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  Nella Last in the 1950's (Housewife, 49) (Paperback) By (author) Robert Malcolmson, By (author) Patricia Malcolmson

  

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  Short Description for Nella Last in the 1950'sDiscussing the private life of the author, as well as that of her family, friends and neighbors, this title shows what ordinary people felt during the years of growing prosperity in a flourishing and modernising Britain. It offers an account of the changing experiences of ordinary people at a time that shaped the society we live in.
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  • Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
  • Published: 07 October 2010
  • Format: Paperback 296 pages
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  • Categories: Diaries, Letters & Journals | Memoirs | British & Irish History
  • ISBN 13: 9781846683503 ISBN 10: 1846683505
  • Sales rank: 42,087

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Full description for Nella Last in the 1950's

• 'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person, leading a shut-in, dull life, can possibly have value'. So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. Sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed the first two volumes of her diaries, written during World War II and its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project, and the basis for BAFTA-winning drama "Housewife 49" starring Victoria Wood. This third compelling volume sees Nella, now in her sixties, writing of what ordinary people felt during those years of growing prosperity in a flourishing and modernising Britain. Her diary offers a detailed, moving and humorous narrative of the changing experiences of ordinary people at a time that shaped the society we live in today. It is an account that's full of surprises as we learn more about her relationship with 'my husband' (never 'Will') and her fears of nuclear war. Outwardly Nella's life was commonplace; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen. As David Kynaston said on Radio 4, she 'will come to be seen as one of the major twentieth century English diarists'.