The Conscientious Objector's Wife: Letters Between Frank and Lucy Sunderland, 1916-1919 (Handheld Research Ser. #2) (PDF)

Synopsis

Frank and Lucy Sunderland, English pacifists and fervent supporters of Labour politics and the Garden City movement, were separated in 1916 when Frank was given his prison sentence for being a conscientious objector. They wrote to each other from November 1916 until April 1919, while Frank was incarcerated at Wandsworth and Bedford prisons. Lucy looked after their three children in Letchworth, and earned enough to keep the family afloat by keeping hens, collecting insurance premiums and taking in sewing. This unique collection of letters is important as a working-class record of wartime experience. These letters show how their shared ideology of a socialist pacifism upheld the couple in separation, planning for a better future in a more equal society for all. The letters give contemporary evidence of events on the Letchworth Home Front: spotting airships, food rationing, hearing the London air-raids, the arrival of ‘Spanish flu’ in 1918, and the sufferings of the European civilian populations immediately after the war. For readers interested in the First World War, British politics, the Garden City movement, feminism and women’s emancipation, adult and workers’ education, Quakerism and pacifism

Copyright:

2018

Book Details

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

336 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781999881368

Related ISBNs:

9781999881375

Publisher:

Handheld Press

Date of Addition:

09/11/20

Copyrighted By:

Copyright of the notes and introduction, Kate Macdonald. Copyright of the letters, The descendants of Frank and Lucy Sunderland.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Military, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Social Studies, Politics and Government

Submitted By:

Kate Macdonald

Proofread By:

Kate Macdonald

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.