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The Milk Lady at New Park Farm
Anne McEntegart
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Description for The Milk Lady at New Park Farm
Paperback. Anne McEntegart wanted to support the War Effort so she left London, and her life as the wife of an officer, to work on the land and deliver milk in the New Forest. In doing so, she kept a Wartime diary full of evocative descriptions of her work alongside the Land Girls. Illustrator(s): Cocker, Paul. Editor(s): Robson, Emma; Edwards, Martin. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESH; 3JJH; BGHA; BJ; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 195 x 12. Weight in Grams: 666.
Anne McEntegart wanted to support the War Effort. Her Royal Air Force officer husband was working abroad and her only child was in Canada, evacuated for safety. Aged thirty-eight, Anne left London, and her life as the wife of an officer, to work on the land and deliver milk for Walter Gossling at New Park Farm, just outside the village of Brockenhurst, in the New Forest. Though not an official member of the Women's Land Army, Anne milked cows and stacked corn alongisde the land girls on the farm. Engagingly detailing the brim-full days of farm life during ... Read more
Anne McEntegart wanted to support the War Effort. Her Royal Air Force officer husband was working abroad and her only child was in Canada, evacuated for safety. Aged thirty-eight, Anne left London, and her life as the wife of an officer, to work on the land and deliver milk for Walter Gossling at New Park Farm, just outside the village of Brockenhurst, in the New Forest. Though not an official member of the Women's Land Army, Anne milked cows and stacked corn alongisde the land girls on the farm. Engagingly detailing the brim-full days of farm life during ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Regional Magazine Company United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Sheffield, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907998065
SKU
V9781907998065
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Reviews for The Milk Lady at New Park Farm
Anne's diary gives a tantalising sketch of a happy outgoing person who documented her incredibly hard physical work with a saint-like lightness of touch... Her artisitic nature is revealed in her desciptions of nature... What a vanished world to record. Though still recent in historical terms, it represents a bygone age, and Anne's diary is a treasure as it tells ... Read more