Letters from the Little Blue Room
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Letters from the Little Blue Room
An Intimate Portrait of World War I
Gigg, Daisy Thomson
Barbican Press
10/2024
220
Mole
9781909954489
15 a 20 dias
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Introduction
11
Letters from the Little Blue Room
15
1. On Returning from Holidays - Nice and Otherwise
17
2. War-Conditions in our Town
22
3. The Regulars - Personality v. Money
26
4. "The Myriad-Handed Murder of Multitudes"
30
5. To Valcartier Concentration Camp, Quebec
35
6. To Salisbury Plain
38
7. Memories
41
8. Our Boys - Part of the Battle
45
9. Women and War. - The Pride of the British Army
49
10. On Friendship and Tolerance. - Enter Bettetina
56
11. Passion - "A Temple Pure"
62
12. On Disillusionment
66
13. Functions
70
14. Spring. - Great-Grandmother Eve. - "Ours!"
75
15. Enter Pilot Me II
80
16. The Hump - And A Cure
91
17. "Ours!" Again - "The Seventh's Farewell"
96
18. Heroism And Heroes
100
19. A Thrashing from God
104
20. Snobs. - National Anthems - On Going Abroad
108
21. Wire to Southampton, July 3rd, 1915
113
22. An Old Maid's Family
114
23. Army v. Navy
121
24. Morality or "Usualness"
126
25. Trees. - The Ink of Fools
129
26. A Creed - Poverty. - Lives Of Great Men
134
27. Birthday Reflections - and a Message
138
28. Another Crusader Goes Forth. - Happiness. - The Gleam
142
29. Bettetina Stays. - "Bread and Roses." - "Not Fallen"
147
30. On Christmas Things. - Toys
151
31. Too Young! - Bettetina's Tastes. - The Poor Press
156
32. "Nuts" - 1915
160
33. The Pride of The British Army Goes Out. - A Prayer. - "Resolve"
165
34. That First Morning Feeling. - On Men's and Women's Giving. - Symbols
169
35. On Art - High and Otherwise
173
36. Hard Lines!
178
37. On "Moral" Writers - The Darkened Streets. - Shortage Of Paper
184
38. Spring Comes Again
189
39. Wire
193
40. On Death
194
41. On Life
197
42. On Going Into Action
200
43. In Hospital - Harry Passes
204
44. A Hero Without A Halo - Mrs. St. Clair Stobart's Message To Women
207
Afterword
212
Acknowledgements
221
Notes
222
11
Letters from the Little Blue Room
15
1. On Returning from Holidays - Nice and Otherwise
17
2. War-Conditions in our Town
22
3. The Regulars - Personality v. Money
26
4. "The Myriad-Handed Murder of Multitudes"
30
5. To Valcartier Concentration Camp, Quebec
35
6. To Salisbury Plain
38
7. Memories
41
8. Our Boys - Part of the Battle
45
9. Women and War. - The Pride of the British Army
49
10. On Friendship and Tolerance. - Enter Bettetina
56
11. Passion - "A Temple Pure"
62
12. On Disillusionment
66
13. Functions
70
14. Spring. - Great-Grandmother Eve. - "Ours!"
75
15. Enter Pilot Me II
80
16. The Hump - And A Cure
91
17. "Ours!" Again - "The Seventh's Farewell"
96
18. Heroism And Heroes
100
19. A Thrashing from God
104
20. Snobs. - National Anthems - On Going Abroad
108
21. Wire to Southampton, July 3rd, 1915
113
22. An Old Maid's Family
114
23. Army v. Navy
121
24. Morality or "Usualness"
126
25. Trees. - The Ink of Fools
129
26. A Creed - Poverty. - Lives Of Great Men
134
27. Birthday Reflections - and a Message
138
28. Another Crusader Goes Forth. - Happiness. - The Gleam
142
29. Bettetina Stays. - "Bread and Roses." - "Not Fallen"
147
30. On Christmas Things. - Toys
151
31. Too Young! - Bettetina's Tastes. - The Poor Press
156
32. "Nuts" - 1915
160
33. The Pride of The British Army Goes Out. - A Prayer. - "Resolve"
165
34. That First Morning Feeling. - On Men's and Women's Giving. - Symbols
169
35. On Art - High and Otherwise
173
36. Hard Lines!
178
37. On "Moral" Writers - The Darkened Streets. - Shortage Of Paper
184
38. Spring Comes Again
189
39. Wire
193
40. On Death
194
41. On Life
197
42. On Going Into Action
200
43. In Hospital - Harry Passes
204
44. A Hero Without A Halo - Mrs. St. Clair Stobart's Message To Women
207
Afterword
212
Acknowledgements
221
Notes
222
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scottish; lost women writers; Black Watch; suffragette; nurse; WWI; feminist; scotland; forgotten; Canadian Expeditionary Force; epistolary; home front; Winnipeg; letters; Dunfermline; canada; classic; trench; rediscovery; Fort Garry Horse; woman; world war one; soldier
Introduction
11
Letters from the Little Blue Room
15
1. On Returning from Holidays - Nice and Otherwise
17
2. War-Conditions in our Town
22
3. The Regulars - Personality v. Money
26
4. "The Myriad-Handed Murder of Multitudes"
30
5. To Valcartier Concentration Camp, Quebec
35
6. To Salisbury Plain
38
7. Memories
41
8. Our Boys - Part of the Battle
45
9. Women and War. - The Pride of the British Army
49
10. On Friendship and Tolerance. - Enter Bettetina
56
11. Passion - "A Temple Pure"
62
12. On Disillusionment
66
13. Functions
70
14. Spring. - Great-Grandmother Eve. - "Ours!"
75
15. Enter Pilot Me II
80
16. The Hump - And A Cure
91
17. "Ours!" Again - "The Seventh's Farewell"
96
18. Heroism And Heroes
100
19. A Thrashing from God
104
20. Snobs. - National Anthems - On Going Abroad
108
21. Wire to Southampton, July 3rd, 1915
113
22. An Old Maid's Family
114
23. Army v. Navy
121
24. Morality or "Usualness"
126
25. Trees. - The Ink of Fools
129
26. A Creed - Poverty. - Lives Of Great Men
134
27. Birthday Reflections - and a Message
138
28. Another Crusader Goes Forth. - Happiness. - The Gleam
142
29. Bettetina Stays. - "Bread and Roses." - "Not Fallen"
147
30. On Christmas Things. - Toys
151
31. Too Young! - Bettetina's Tastes. - The Poor Press
156
32. "Nuts" - 1915
160
33. The Pride of The British Army Goes Out. - A Prayer. - "Resolve"
165
34. That First Morning Feeling. - On Men's and Women's Giving. - Symbols
169
35. On Art - High and Otherwise
173
36. Hard Lines!
178
37. On "Moral" Writers - The Darkened Streets. - Shortage Of Paper
184
38. Spring Comes Again
189
39. Wire
193
40. On Death
194
41. On Life
197
42. On Going Into Action
200
43. In Hospital - Harry Passes
204
44. A Hero Without A Halo - Mrs. St. Clair Stobart's Message To Women
207
Afterword
212
Acknowledgements
221
Notes
222
11
Letters from the Little Blue Room
15
1. On Returning from Holidays - Nice and Otherwise
17
2. War-Conditions in our Town
22
3. The Regulars - Personality v. Money
26
4. "The Myriad-Handed Murder of Multitudes"
30
5. To Valcartier Concentration Camp, Quebec
35
6. To Salisbury Plain
38
7. Memories
41
8. Our Boys - Part of the Battle
45
9. Women and War. - The Pride of the British Army
49
10. On Friendship and Tolerance. - Enter Bettetina
56
11. Passion - "A Temple Pure"
62
12. On Disillusionment
66
13. Functions
70
14. Spring. - Great-Grandmother Eve. - "Ours!"
75
15. Enter Pilot Me II
80
16. The Hump - And A Cure
91
17. "Ours!" Again - "The Seventh's Farewell"
96
18. Heroism And Heroes
100
19. A Thrashing from God
104
20. Snobs. - National Anthems - On Going Abroad
108
21. Wire to Southampton, July 3rd, 1915
113
22. An Old Maid's Family
114
23. Army v. Navy
121
24. Morality or "Usualness"
126
25. Trees. - The Ink of Fools
129
26. A Creed - Poverty. - Lives Of Great Men
134
27. Birthday Reflections - and a Message
138
28. Another Crusader Goes Forth. - Happiness. - The Gleam
142
29. Bettetina Stays. - "Bread and Roses." - "Not Fallen"
147
30. On Christmas Things. - Toys
151
31. Too Young! - Bettetina's Tastes. - The Poor Press
156
32. "Nuts" - 1915
160
33. The Pride of The British Army Goes Out. - A Prayer. - "Resolve"
165
34. That First Morning Feeling. - On Men's and Women's Giving. - Symbols
169
35. On Art - High and Otherwise
173
36. Hard Lines!
178
37. On "Moral" Writers - The Darkened Streets. - Shortage Of Paper
184
38. Spring Comes Again
189
39. Wire
193
40. On Death
194
41. On Life
197
42. On Going Into Action
200
43. In Hospital - Harry Passes
204
44. A Hero Without A Halo - Mrs. St. Clair Stobart's Message To Women
207
Afterword
212
Acknowledgements
221
Notes
222
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