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Title:
Housewife, 49
Alternate title:
Housewife, forty-nine
Summary:
Soon after England declared war on Germany in 1939, Lancashire housewife Nella Last began writing a diary as part of a public project. She was 49 and fearful that she wouldn't be able to cope with her son's enlistment and life alone with her domineering husband. Recounts her experience of wartime privations, but also her dawning sense of independence. Amid the hardships of food rations and air raids, Nella's volunteer work for rthe war effort fills her with an exhilarating sense of purpose.
General Note:
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Inspired by the wartime diary of Nella Last.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2006.

Special features: Insert with background on the U.K.'s Mass Observation project; text interview with Victoria Wood; cast filmographies.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Publisher:
Distributed by Acorn Media,
Publication Date:
2008
Publication Information:
Silver Spring, MD : Distributed by Acorn Media, [2008]
Call Number:
DVD HOUSEWI
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