These Wonderful Rumours!
A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945
Published on 1. November 2012
288 pages
978-0-7481-3271-3 (ISBN)
Description
May Smith is twenty-four at the outbreak of World War Two; at night, the sirens wail, and the young men of the village leave to fight. But still, ordinary life goes on: May goes shopping, plays tennis, takes holidays and even falls in love - while recording it faithfully in her diary.
'May is simply a joy, a bright spark in dark times' The Times
'May is simply a joy, a bright spark in dark times' The Times
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
Integrated: 20, int b/w photos
File size
2,80 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7481-3271-3 (9780748132713)
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May Smith was born in 1914 in Swadlincote, South Derbyshire. She trained to be a teacher at Goldsmiths College, London. For many years she kept a diary, with a record of her life and her reading. After her first post at an all age elementary school in Swadlincote, in 1937 she moved to Springfield, a new Swadlincote junior school, where she taught during the Second World War. After marriage and children and a break from full-time teaching, she returned to Springfield, where she remained until her retirement in 1975. She died in 2004.
