Joining the Dots: A Woman In Her Time

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Juliet Gardiner. Joining the Dots: A Woman In Her Time

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Prologue

A War Baby

Second-Hand Baby

An Education (of Sorts)

Old Town Blues

Expectations

Spanland

Making a Historian

A Political Wife

Putting Asunder

A Working Woman

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Picture Section

Also by Juliet Gardiner

About the Author

About the Publisher

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Title Page

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In Barrow-in-Furness in northwest England, the middle-aged Nella Last, who had found a new confidence and purpose in her wartime work with the Women’s Voluntary Service, wondered what she could do now that there was no need to raise money for the war effort, serve tea and buns to war workers, or provide clothes and comforts for the troops and refugees. Was her life to revert to looking after her uncommunicative, stick-in the-mud husband, tending her garden, and polishing the brass ornaments in her house until they gleamed?

II A Child’s War

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