Author: PENN, MARGARET
Title: Young Mrs Burton
Description: London, Futura. 1982, First Thus. (ISBN: 0708821375) Soft cover. Book, Sequel to Manchester Fourteen Miles and The Foolish Virgin, third in the series of autobiographical novels. First published in 1954 "Hilda Winstanley (Margaret Penn) now married to a young army officer who served in the First World War gives a moving account of their life together in Brighton and London in the depressed years after the War. Without self pity she writes of the unhappy marriage, including the alcoholism of her husband and the poverty and destitution that ensued. In describing giving up her childen for adoption it ..illustrates the problems of the days before the welfare state. Fine.

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