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Nella Last

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born

October 04, 1889 in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, The United Kingdom

died

June 22, 1968

gender

female

genre

Biographies & Memoirs

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Nella Last was a wife and mother who wrote up her day-to-day experience of civilian life in the Second World War as part of the Mass-Observation Archive, which was set up by sociologist Charles Madge and anthropologist Tom Harrisson to record ordinary people's views on contemporary events. She was an intelligent woman, who was stifled by her life and repressive marriage in a provincial place. Fortunately, she had two escape routes from depression: her writing and her work with the Women's Volunteer Service. She began the diary in 1937 and kept it up longer than most and writing more than everyone else. It was finally published in 1981. Nella died in 1968, so never lived to see her wartime diaries published.

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Books by Nella Last

Average rating: 4.14 · 346 ratings · 80 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49 by Nella Last, Suzie Fleming (Editor), Richard Broad (Editor) 4.17 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife, 49 by Nella Last (Editor), Robert Malcolmson (Editor), Patricia Malcolmson (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Nella Last in the 1950s: The Further Diaries of Housewife, 49 by Nella Last, Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Nella Last in the 1950s 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:

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Quotes by Nella Last

“If you love a person in the real sense, you want them to be happy, not take them like butter and spread them thinly over your own bread, to make it more palatable for yourself.”
― Nella Last, Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49

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