Daisy Thomson Gigg

Letters from the Little Blue Room

An Intimate Portrait of World War I

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Produktbeschreibung

A 'lost' women's classic from World War I - discovered in the rare books room of the British Library, last seen in 1917! A Scottish woman sends funny, moving, compassionate and rousing letters to her younger brother, set to fight with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the trenches of WWI. Dunfermline, her hometown and the base for the Scottish regiment The Black Watch, morphs into an active home front. Letter by letter we watch the war unfolding. Her brother trains with his cavalry regiment on England’s Salisbury Plain and moves to frontline duty in France. Shocked by the war and those who inflame it, the sister’s letters are frank and also encouraging. Others are vanishing. She needs her brother, her young Canadian, to survive. Complete with an introduction, a closing biography, and original photographs of the author and the period. "Daisy Thomson Gigg creates a voice as alive and open, fresh and engaged as when she sat at the little round table, beneath the red-shaded lamp more than a century ago, writing to her Boy, determined to keep his spirits up and remind him of home....Hers represents a new and unique voice and an important addition to the canon of literature of the First World War." – Angela K. Smith, author of Women's Writing of the First World War

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barbican Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781909954489
• ISBN-10: 1909954489
• Artikelnr.: 60586572

Autorenporträt

Daisy Thomson Gigg (1885-1953) was born in Brooklyn, New York . At the age of four she moved to Scotland with her Scottish family, settling in the town of Dunfermline. Letters from the Little Blue Room was her first book, published anonymously in . 1916, followed by a book of short stories, The Call. Styling herself 'a fiction writer' she emigrated back to the USA in 1921. Marrying a fellow novelist and farmer she settled in Penrose, Colorado, where she continued writing stories and being active in the suffragette movement.

Inhaltsangabe

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