Dear Mr Bigelow : a transatlantic friendship
Woodsford, Frances2010
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Dear Mr Bigelow is an enchanting collection of weekly letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an unmarried woman working at the Public Baths in Bournemouth, to a wealthy American widower in New York. Frances Woodsford and Paul Bigelow never met, yet their epistolary friendship was her lifeline. We follow Francess trials with her ghastly boss Mr Bond; the hilarious weekly Civil Defence Classes as the Cold War advances; her attempts to shake off an unwanted suitor, and life at home with her mother and her charming neer-do-well brother. Sparked with comic genius, the letters provide a unique insight into post-war England and the growth of an extraordinary friendship.
Main title:
Dear Mr Bigelow : a transatlantic friendship / Frances Woodsford ; letters selected and abridged by Barbara Bass.
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2010.
Collation:
xiii, 382 p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2009.
ISBN:
9780099542292 (pbk)
Dewey class:
941.085
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2010264