These Wonderful Rumours! - A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945

Zusatztext Well written! witty and absorbing! Smith's chronicles give us an insight into the life and impact of the war in a small English village Informationen zum Autor May Smith was born in 1914 in Swadlincote! South Derbyshire. She trained to be a teacher at Goldsmiths College! London. For many years she kept a diary! with a record of her life and her reading. After her first post at an all age elementary school in Swadlincote! in 1937 she moved to Springfield! a new Swadlincote junior school! where she taught during the Second World War. After marriage and children and a break from full-time teaching! she returned to Springfield! where she remained until her retirement in 1975. She died in 2004. Klappentext May Smith is twenty-four at the outbreak of World War Two; at night, the sirens wail, and the young men of the village leave to fight. But still, ordinary life goes on: May goes shopping, plays tennis, takes holidays and even falls in love - while recording it faithfully in her diary. 'May is simply a joy, a bright spark in dark times' The Times 'The People's War' comes to life in this wonderful diary of life on the Home Front during World War Two. Zusammenfassung 'The People's War' comes to life in this wonderful diary of life on the Home Front during World War Two.

About the author

May Smith was born in 1914 in Swadlincote, South Derbyshire. She trained to be a teacher at Goldsmiths College, London. For many years she kept a diary, with a record of her life and her reading. After her first post at an all age elementary school in Swadlincote, in 1937 she moved to Springfield, a new Swadlincote junior school, where she taught during the Second World War. After marriage and children and a break from full-time teaching, she returned to Springfield, where she remained until her retirement in 1975. She died in 2004.

Product details

• Authors: May Smith, Smith May
• Assisted by: Juliet Gardiner (Introduction), Gardiner Juliet (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.09.2013
• EAN: 9781844088119
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-811-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Diaries, letters & journals, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Derbyshire, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Autobiography: historical, political and military, Diaries, letters and journals, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Derbyshire & Peak District