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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