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Joyce Dennys
Born
in Simla, Himachal Pradesh, India
August 14, 1883
Died
February 23, 1991
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Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front 1939-1942
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1985
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13 editions
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Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945
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published
1945
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11 editions
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And Then There Was One
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1983
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5 editions
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Mrs. Dose The Doctor’s Wife
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Repeated doses
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Lear of Albion Crescent
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published
1956
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Now We Shall Never Know
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published
1962
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2 editions
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economy must be our watchword
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The Lawn
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Joanna and the Candles
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“Living in a small town...is like living in a large family of rather uncongenial relations. Sometimes it’s fun, and sometimes it’s perfectly awful, but it’s always good for you. People in large towns are like only-children.”
― Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945
― Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945
“...‘All this suffering,â€� I said, ‘and nothing but greed and violence to build on when the war is over.â€�
‘Have another soda-mint,� said Charles.
I had one. Then I said, ‘Why are we here? That’s what I don’t understand. Why be here at all when it all has to be so beastly?�
‘I suppose we just came, like mould on cheese.�
‘Then why do we want to be happy? Mould on cheese doesn’t want to be happy.â€� ...”
― Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945
‘Have another soda-mint,� said Charles.
I had one. Then I said, ‘Why are we here? That’s what I don’t understand. Why be here at all when it all has to be so beastly?�
‘I suppose we just came, like mould on cheese.�
‘Then why do we want to be happy? Mould on cheese doesn’t want to be happy.â€� ...”
― Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945
“Last week posters appeared up and down the street which said "GIVE A GOOD BOOK IN AID OF THE RED CROSS". I was pleased when I saw them, for I thought it must mean books of a religious nature were needed, and as I haven't got any it absolved me from all responsibility.
To part with even one of the tattered and incongruous volume which form what I am pleased to call my library is, for me, worse than losing a front tooth. Sometimes I wake in the night and writhe to think of the books I have lent to people and never seen again. Once I groaned aloud and woke Charles. "What is the matter Henrietta?" he said, "Have you got a pain?"
"No, Charles, but I keep thinking of that copy of Barchester Towers which I lent somebody and never got back."
"For crying out loud!" said Charles, and went to sleep again.”
― Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945
To part with even one of the tattered and incongruous volume which form what I am pleased to call my library is, for me, worse than losing a front tooth. Sometimes I wake in the night and writhe to think of the books I have lent to people and never seen again. Once I groaned aloud and woke Charles. "What is the matter Henrietta?" he said, "Have you got a pain?"
"No, Charles, but I keep thinking of that copy of Barchester Towers which I lent somebody and never got back."
"For crying out loud!" said Charles, and went to sleep again.”
― Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945
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