| Entry Text: | WOOLFITT, Susan. Idle Women. 221p., illus. London: Benn, 1947. The author was recruited by the MoWT under the Women's Training Scheme in 1944 to work on canal boats moving cargo round England. Presents an idyllic picture of life on the Home Front in the last year of war. Reprinted in 1986 by Baldwin with a new introduction and new illustrations (ISBN: 0947712038). |
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