Millions Like Us (84 page)

pages 385–6.
‘Patience Chadwyck-Healey was another …’: PC-H/A.

page 386.
‘Frances Campbell-Preston was another …’: Campbell-Preston,
The Rich Spoils of Time
.

page 386.
‘Pip Beck – ex-WAAF …’: PB/A.

page 386.
‘Cora Johnston, née Styles …’: CW/A.

page 386.
‘Flo Mahony, ex-WAAF …’: FM/A.

page 387.
‘Eileen Morgan, née Rouse …’: author interview with Eileen Morgan, née Rouse, 2008.

pages 387–9.
‘Like so many, Margery Baines …’: MB/NGS.

pages 389–90.
‘WAAF Pip Beck …’: PB/A; and author interview with Peter Brimson, 2010.

pages 390–91.
‘After Cora Johnston’s husband …’: CW/A.

page 391.
‘Joy Taverner married …’: author interview with Michael Trindles and Sue Green (son and daughter of Joy Trindles, née Taverner); JoyT/PP.

pages 391–3.
‘In the autumn of 1945 …’: MS/MEM.

pages 393–5.
‘Phyllis Noble was blessed …’: PW/CAW, PW/JS.

page 395.
‘My generation was …’: SH-J/A.

pages 395–6.
‘Frances Partridge was another …’: FP/EL.

page 396.
‘Vera Lynn also …’: author interview with Dame Vera Lynn, 2009.

pages 396–8.
‘WAAF Mike Morris …’: AC/PP.

pages 398–401.
‘In November 1945 …’: AP/A, AP/PP.

page 401.
‘When QA Lorna Bradey …’: LK/MD.

pages 401–3.
‘But the artist Frances Faviell …’: FF/BEAR.

pages 403–4.
‘
A Woman in Berlin
…’: Anonymous,
A Woman in Berlin
, translated by Philip Boehm.

page 403.
‘As Virginia Woolf had written …’: from Woolf, ‘Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid’.

page 404.
‘By the time Phyllis Noble …’: PW/JS.

page 404.
‘blizzards were making headlines …’:
The Times
, the
Daily Sketch
.

pages 404–5.
‘Maggie Joy Blunt went shopping …’: MO.

pages 405–6.
‘The nation shivered …’: for an account of the cold winter of 1947 see Kynaston,
Austerity Britain
.

page 406.
‘Bakers were prohibited …’:
Daily Express
, 12 February 1947.

page 406.
‘The
Daily Mirror
offered suggestions …’:
Daily Mirror
, 14 February 1947.

page 406.
‘Margaret Herbertson, who …’: Mar.P/A.

page 406.
‘Thrifty Nella Last …’: NL/NLP.

page 406.
‘Maggie Joy Blunt struggled …’: MO.

pages 407–10.
‘Frances Faviell’s account …’: FF/BEAR.

Chapter 13: There’ll Be Bluebirds

page 411.
‘I’m not clever …’: NL/NLP.

page 412.
‘Mary Grieve, the editor …’: Grieve,
Millions Made My Story
.

page 412.
‘The rich could not pay more …’: Bloom,
Trilogy
.

page 412.
‘Frances Campbell-Preston’s family …’: Campbell-Preston,
The Rich Spoils of Time
.

page 413.
‘The war certainly taught …’: BC/YO; and Henry Cloud,
Barbara Cartland: Crusader in Pink
.

page 413.
‘Allowing for the general impoverishment …’: George Orwell,
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell
, vol. 4
.

pages 413–14.
‘In 1948 the sociologist …’: Jephcott,
Rising Twenty
.

page 414.
‘Nella Last began to assess …’: NL/NLP.

page 415.
‘I’m having a deliberately …’: MO.

page 415.
‘The holiday-camp phenomenon …’: Valerie A. Tedder,
Post-war Blues
.

pages 415–16.
At the other end of the social scale …’: MP-D/NY.

pages 416–19.
‘The New Look …’: see Pearson Phillips, ‘The New Look’, in Michael Sissons and Philip French, eds.,
Age of Austerity
; and Harry Hopkins,
The New Look: A Social History of the Forties and Fifties in Britain
.

page 417.
‘as Anne Scott-James … insisted …’: letter to
The Times
, 29 September 1947.

page 417.
‘Much as the average woman …’: letter to
The Times
, 1 October 1947.

page 418.
‘Women today are taking …’: Mabel Ridealgh, MP, cited in Sissons and French, eds.,
Age of Austerity
.

page 418.
‘Oh yes, I’d have liked …’: TR/A.

pages 418–19, 420.
‘Shirley Goodhart was one …’: MO.

page 420.
‘Maggie Joy Blunt wrote …’: MO.

page 420.
‘The romantic novelist …’: Speed, Diary.

page 421.
‘young women like Doffy Brewer …’: DB/A.

pages 421–4.
‘After losing two fiancés …’: HF/LIME; HF/THURS; and author interview with Robert Bhatia.

pages 424–8.
‘The idea of marriage …’: PW/JS; PW/CCA; PW/A.

pages 428–9.
‘On Day One a Leeds woman …’: examples cited in Addison,
Now the War Is Over
.

pages 429–30.
‘Domestic servant Margaret Powell …’: Powell,
Climbing the Stairs
.

pages 430–31.
‘In his essay, “Woman’s Place” …’: William Emrys Williams, ‘Women’s Role’, in
Current Affairs Magazine
, 11 January 1947.

page 432.
‘Shirley Goodhart was one young wife …’: MO.

page 432.
‘post-war career advice …’: examples from
Everywoman
, 1948.

pages 432–4.
‘Since the age of sixteen …’: PW/JS; PW/CCA; PW/A.

pages 434–6.
‘For Joan Wyndham …’: JW/AO.

pages 436–7.
‘Nina Bawden’s creative talents …’: NB/TIME.

page 437.
‘Grossly unfair …’: cited in Wicks,
Welcome Home
.

page 437.
‘Ursula Bloom, who …’: Bloom,
Trilogy
.

page 438.
‘In the same vein, Barbara Cartland …’: BC/YO.

page 438.
‘the social researcher Ferdinand Zweig …’: Ferdinand Zweig,
Women’s Life and Labour
.

pages 438–9.
‘In 1947 a galaxy …’: Olwen W. Campbell,
The Report of a Conference on The Feminine Point of View
.

page 442.
‘First, a wedding photograph …’: HL/CI; author correspondence with Christopher Long.

page 442.
‘Ilkley Road, Barrow-in-Furness …’: NL/NLP.

pages 442–3.
‘A cottage in Slough …’: see Garfield,
Our Hidden Lives.

page 444.
‘A summer day in Piccadilly …’: MH/JOURNAL.

pages 444–5.
‘Ham Spray House …’: FP/EL.

page 444.
‘Oundle, Northamptonshire …’: LK/MD; author interview with Ralph Kite (son of Ralph and Lorna Kite, née Bradey).

page 444.
A railway station in Sussex …’: AP/A.

pages 444–5.
‘Ontario, Canada …’: MB/A.

page 445.
‘Edinburgh: Jean Park …’: JP/A.

pages 445–6.
‘Blackheath, London …’: author interviews with Elizabeth Paterson (Mary Cornish’s niece), 2009, and Maggie Paterson (niece-in-law), 2009; and private papers of Mary Cornish, courtesy of Maggie Paterson.

page 446.
‘Leamington Spa, Warwickshire …’: CM/MM.

page 447.
‘South Kensington …’: FF/CHELSEA; author interview with Mrs Pamela Hanbury.

pages 447–8.
North Berwick, the Firth of Forth …’: KW/A.

Select Bibliography

Biography, Memoirs, Diaries, Autobiography

The impossibility of doing full justice to the vast abundance of war memoirs that exists will be apparent to anybody researching the period, and this selection represents the tip of a sizeable iceberg.

Anderson, Verily,
Spam Tomorrow
, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1956.

Andrews, Lucilla,
No Time for Romance,
Harrap and Co., London, 1977.

Anonymous,
A Woman in Berlin
, trans. Philip Boehm, Virago, London, 2005.

Barraud, E. M.,
Set My Hand upon the Plough
, Littlebury and Co., Worcester, 1946.

Bawden, Nina,
In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography
, Virago, London, 1995.

Beck, Pip,
A WAAF in Bomber Command
, Goodall Publications, London and St Albans, 1989.

Bloom, Ursula,
Trilogy
, Hutchinson, London, 1954.

Bowen, Elizabeth,
‘London, 1940’
, in
Collected Impressions
, Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1950.

Brewer Kerr, Dorothy,
The Girls Behind the Guns
, Robert Hale, London, 1990.

Brittain, Vera,
Testament of Experience: An Autobiographical Story of the Years 1925–1950
, Victor Gollancz, London, 1957.