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A notable woman: the romantic journals of Jean Lucey Pratt

Pratt, Jean LuceyGarfield, Simon(Introduction by)Garfield, Simon(Edited by)
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'Extraordinary. Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing' HILARY MANTEL

In April 1925, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she would keep for the rest of her life, producing over a million words in 45 exercise books. For sixty years, no one had an inkling of her diaries' existence, and they have remained unpublished until now.

Jean wrote about anything that amused, inspired or troubled her, laying bare her life with aching honesty, infectious humour, indelicate gossip and heartrending hopefulness. She recorded her yearnings and disappointments in love. She documented the loss of a tennis match, her unpredictable driving, catty friends, devoted cats and difficult guests. With Jean we live through the tumult of the Second World War and the fears of a nation. We see Britain hurtling through a period of unbridled transformation and the shifting landscape for women in society. A unique slice of living, breathing British history, Jean's diaries are a revealing chronicle of life in the twentieth century.

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Canongate Books
1782115714 / 9781782115717
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05/11/2015
English
530 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
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