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Nella Last

Born

in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, The United Kingdom

October 04, 1889

Died

June 22, 1968

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs

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Nella Last was a wife and mother who wrote up her day-to-day experience of civilian life in the Second World War as part of the Mass-Observation Archive, which was set up by sociologist Charles Madge and anthropologist Tom Harrisson to record ordinary people's views on contemporary events. She was an intelligent woman, who was stifled by her life and repressive marriage in a provincial place. Fortunately, she had two escape routes from depression: her writing and her work with the Women's Volunteer Service. She began the diary in 1937 and kept it up longer than most and writing more than everyone else. It was finally published in 1981. Nella died in 1968, so never lived to see her wartime diaries published. ...more

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Average rating: 4.17 · 2,863 ratings · 341 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49 by Nella Last, Suzie Fleming (Editor), Richard Broad (Editor) 4.15 avg rating — 1,836 ratings — published 1981 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries of Housewife, 49 by Nella Last, Robert Malcolmson (Editor), Patricia Malcolmson (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 561 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nella Last in the 1950s: The Further Diaries of Housewife, 49 by Nella Last, Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson 4.22 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War & Peace by Nella Last, Robert Malcolmson (Editor), Patricia Malcolmson (Editor) 4.17 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Nella Last

Housewife, 49 (3 books)
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Nella Last,

Patricia Malcolmson,

Robert Malcolmson

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“It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.”
― Nella Last

tags: books, joy-of-reading, love-of-books

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“She says she prays to God to strike Hitler dead. Cannot help thinking if God wanted to do that he would not have waited till Mrs. Helm asked him to do so.”
― Nella last, Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49

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“Odd how differently people look on home. To me it’s my real ‘core’ of life and living. I can always relax and read or sew happily if I’m on my own, and would like to have people in rather than go out looking for change. My husband has his mother’s deep horror of being in the house by himself, and only wanders around unhappily, looking out of windows, watching the clock and timing my return.”
― Nella Last, Nella Last in the 1950s: The Further Diaries of Housewife, 49

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