The Dressmaker of Dachau

Mary Chamberlain

The Borough Press

DRESSMAKER OF DACHAU- PB

In this original and compelling book, Mary Chamberlain explores the nature and meanings of migration for Barbadians who migrated to Britain and elsewhere. Locating migration within the contemporary debate on modernity, NARRATIVES OF EXILE AND RTURN highlights the continuing role of migration in shaping the culture and history of Barbados. It reveals the vitality of family dynamics and values in fashioning life courses and the ways in which these are transmitted and transformed across the generations. It analyses how the 'Mother Country' was encountered and incorporated, and how the continuing presence of the Carribean contributes to the identities of those born or brought up in Britain.

Narratives of Exile and Return

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The Forgotten

Literature & Fiction

Literary

<p>Originally published in 1975, Fenwomen was the first non-fiction book published by Virago. A vivid social and oral history of an isolated village in the Cambridgeshire Fens, it provides a unique portrait, spanning nearly 100 years, via the previously unheard voices of the women who lived there, of a community where there were virtually no professional or middle-class people, where intermarriage was common and a single family owned all the village land. Fenwomen was in a tradition stretching through Ronald Blythe (Akenfield) and 20 years further back to the true pioneer of English oral history, George Ewart Evans, with his publication Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay (1956). In an extended new introduction to this Full Circle edition, Mary Chamberlain recalls her original intent to write a 'feminist Akenfield', a 'history from the bottom up not of great country houses and the chatelaines who ran them but of women as labourers and labourers' wives'. She describes, too, how she revisited the village and talked to some of the original women about how their lives had changed over 35 years.</p>

Fenwomen

Full Circle

The Traveling Soup Pot

Mary Chamberlin Cookbooks

<p>Eroina romanului Croitoreasa de la Dachau este o frumoasa londoneza, Ada Vaughan, care nutreste ambitia de a deveni modista, cu un atelier care sa-i poarte numele. Si visul ei nu este, poate, prea greu de indeplinit, fiindca talentul nu-i lipseste. Se intimpla insa ca la 19 ani, citi are in 1939, Ada intilneste un barbat fermecator, pe Stanislaus von Lieben. Cind afla ca Stanislaus e conte, visurilor sale li se adauga stralucirea unei lumi in care, saraca, Ada nu pasise inca. Indragostita de acest barbat sarmant, fata ii accepta invitatia de a pleca impreuna la Paris. Calatoria romantica sfirseste insa in promiscuitate si haos: izbucneste razboiul, Stanislaus da la iveala lucruri pe care, in naivitatea ei, Ada nu le putuse banui, iar in drumul sau prin viata va cunoaste singuratatea femeii parasite, asumarea regulilor traiului intr-o manastire fara a fi calugarita si apoi prizonieratul german. Va supravietui razboiului gratie talentului ce nu ii poate fi luat. "Croitoreasa de la Dachau are in fundal un thriller minunat povestit. Nu poti sa nu te indragostesti de un personaj ca Ada Vaughan: real pina in cele mai mici detalii, imperfect, fermecator." (Saskia Sarginson) "Contextul marcat de cel de-al Doilea Razboi Mondial e uimitor de bine schitat. Dupa lectura romanului ramine insa imaginea impresionanta a Adei Vaughan, cu vointa, pasiunea si slabiciunile ei." (Cecilia Ekbäck)</p>

Croitoreasa de la Dachau (Romanian Edition)

Polirom

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