The introduction and notes are by Kristin Bluemel, Professor of English at Monmouth University, New Jersey. GoodReads: Emerging out of the 1940-1941 London Blitz, the drama of these two short works, a novel and a memoir, comes from the courage and endurance of ordinary people met in the factories, streets and lodging houses of a city under bombardment. while journalist and writer Inez Holden (whose novel Night Shift was also published in 1941). She modelled for Augustus John, worked alongside Evelyn Waugh, and had close relationships with George Orwell, Stevie Smith, H G Wells, Cyril Connolly, and Anthony Powell. Literary Studies (Fiction, Novelists, and Prose Writers). Inez Holden (1903-1974) was a British writer and literary figure whose social and professional connections embraced most of London's literary and artistic life. The experiences recorded in It Was Different At The Time overlap in period and subject with Night Shift, setting up a vibrant dialogue between the two texts. Blitz Writing: Night Shift & It Was Different At The Time. and It Was Different at the Time in a single volume titled Blitz Writing. Cover for Theres No Story There: Wartime Writing, 1944-1945. This was intended to be a joint project written with her friend George Orwell (he was in the end too busy to contribute), and includes disguised appearances by notable literary figures of the period. Fiona Mountain is in conversation with Kate Macdonald about Handheld’s republication of Blitz Writing: Nights Shift & It Was Different At The Time. Beatrice Inez Lisette Holden was a British writer and Bohemian social figure. It Was Different At The Time is Holden’s account of wartime life from April 1938 to August 1941, drawn from her own diary. Inez Holden’s novella Night Shift follows a largely working-class cast of characters for five night shifts in a factory that produces camera parts for war planes.
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