Frida Stewart

Broschiertes Buch

Firing a Shot for Freedom

The Memoirs of Frida Stewart

Beschreibung

Frida Stewart (m. Knight) wrote Firing a Shot for Freedom in the 1940s when her experiences in Spain's civil war and passionate belief in the Republican cause were very recent memories, fresh with hope, raw with regret. Vividly capturing the spirit of the times in each chapter, her escape from an internment camp in France during the Second World War, helped by the French Resistance, is described with a particularly tense detailed recall. Frida's own developing political feelings are placed within a rich historical context, mapping out the path she took from her roots in the philanthropic traditions found in drawing-rooms of the Cambridge intelligentsia to her arrival at a steadfast commitment to the ideals of socialism. The Afterword is based Angela Jackson's oral history interviews with Frida, together with material from her extensive collection of personal papers. It explores the fifty years Frida spent campaigning for causes after the memoirs end and offers insights into her indomitable character.

Autor

Angela Jackson Biographical Note Angela Jackson's research for her doctoral thesis included many interviews with women, including Frida Stewart, who had been involved with the civil war in Spain. These formed the basis for her book, British Women and the Spanish Civil War, and for a novel, Warm Earth, which fictionalises some of the women she met and their true stories. In 2001, after moving to the Priorat in Catalonia where she lived for fifteen years, Angela became a founder member and President of No Jubilem la Memòria, an association for the recovery of events and memories of the civil war in the region. Further books followed, exploring the interactions between local villagers and the International Brigaders who were stationed in the area for many weeks before the Battle of the Ebro. The letters between civil war nurse Patience Darton and the International Brigader Robert Aaquist inspired Angela to write a full and moving biography of Patience entitled 'For us it was heaven'. The publication of Firing a Shot for Freedom has at last brought about the fulfilment of a project Angela shared with Frida in the months before her death in 1996.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Clapton Press Limited
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9781913693008
• ISBN-10: 1913693007
• Artikelnr.: 59838414