Set My Hand Upon The Plough
2024
Little Toller Books (Verlag)
978-1-915068-32-3 (ISBN)
Little Toller Books (Verlag)
978-1-915068-32-3 (ISBN)
In this recently rediscovered memoir of life in The Women's Land Army, E. M. Barraud writes with remarkable candour and honesty about her life working the land in The Second World War, and Set My Hand Upon The Plough is set to join the ranks of LGBT memoirs, revealing a different side to the Home Front.
In 1939 the writer Enid Barraud, disillusioned with her city life, left London and went to live in a village in Cambridgeshire, joining what became known as The Women's Land Army, one of thousands of women who worked the land, while war raged overhead and abroad. In her recently rediscovered memoir, Set My Hand Upon The Plough, first published in 1946, Enid writes with remarkable candour and honesty about her life on the farm on the Home Front. Barraud preferred to identify as male, was known to the other farm workers as John, and lived with her female partner. The book now joins the ranks of important LGBT memoirs and casts new light on the lives of men and women who fought or worked for the liberation of Europe. This new edition has an introduction by Luke Turner, author of Out of the Woods and Men at War.
In 1939 the writer Enid Barraud, disillusioned with her city life, left London and went to live in a village in Cambridgeshire, joining what became known as The Women's Land Army, one of thousands of women who worked the land, while war raged overhead and abroad. In her recently rediscovered memoir, Set My Hand Upon The Plough, first published in 1946, Enid writes with remarkable candour and honesty about her life on the farm on the Home Front. Barraud preferred to identify as male, was known to the other farm workers as John, and lived with her female partner. The book now joins the ranks of important LGBT memoirs and casts new light on the lives of men and women who fought or worked for the liberation of Europe. This new edition has an introduction by Luke Turner, author of Out of the Woods and Men at War.
E. M. Barraud (died 1972), was a writer and poet, who also wrote Tail Corn, a memoir of rural life. Her war years were marked by many contributions to Mass Observation. In later life she worked for the Zoology department at Cambridge University.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.01.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Black and white photographs |
| Verlagsort | Wimborne Minster |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 226 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-915068-32-0 / 1915068320 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-915068-32-3 / 9781915068323 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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