May Smith (1) (1914–2004)
Teoksen These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945 tekijä
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1914
- Kuolinaika
- 2004
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- UK
- Asuinpaikat
- Swadlincote, Derbyshire, England, UK
- Ammatit
- teacher
diarist - Suhteet
- Marlor, Duncan (son)
- Organisaatiot
- Workers’ Educational Association
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- May Smith, later Marlor, was a teacher in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, England. Her diary of the years 1935 to 1946 were published in 2012 as These Wonderful Rumours! A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries, edited by her son Duncan Marlor, a retired classics and history teacher. May was 24 years old at the outbreak of World War II. Her diaries provide many unexpected and sometimes quirky insights into wartime Britain, and describe first-hand the effects of war on a community and on a young woman’s personal circle.
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For much of the war there were nightly sirens alerting the people of Britain to the presence of German aircraft dropping bombs in neighborhoods: they regularly woke up to news of which towns and structures had been demolished. Months or years of interrupted sleep became the norm. They were put on strict rationing for food and even clothing. They were instructed to carry their gas masks when they traveled for fear of attack. They had to "black out" all windows and openings in their homes so that no lights could be seen by aircraft at night.
All of this makes it sound like life must have been a matter of grim survival. But here's the great thing about May's diary: it's not! Life goes on. Danger gets absorbed into the routine. It has to. But in the meantime, May does a lot of things. She keeps up correspondence with her men friends that will eventually lead to a courtship. She goes to tennis. She goes to the movies A LOT (love hearing her opinion of the Laurence Olivier Pride and Prejudice, Fantasia, Gaslight, etc.). She teaches school. She reads books. She has endless struggles to buy the right hat and coat. She circulates letters with old schoolmates in far flung corners of the world. And she wrote about all of it in a way that is often hilarious and always intelligent. Excellent reading.… (lisätietoja)