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London Pride (novel)

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London Pride
First US edition
AuthorPhyllis Bottome
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
PublisherFaber and Faber (UK)
Little, Brown (US)
Publication date
1941
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

London Pride is a 1941 novel by the British writer Phyllis Bottome.[1] It takes place in wartime London and follows an East End family during the height of The Blitz during the summer of 1940. It is seen through the eyes of a seven year old boy Ben, named after Big Ben, whose mother is a charwoman and his father is a docker. During the novel his neighbours are killed in an air raid and his own house bombed before he is eventually evacuated to the countryside at the conclusion.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Welsh p.246
  2. ^ Calder p.195

Bibliography

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  • Calder, Robert L. Beware the British Serpent: The Role of Writers in British Propaganda in the United States, 1939-1945. McGill-Queen's Press, 2004.
  • Welsh, Dave. Underground Writing: The London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf. Liverpool University Press, 2010.