London Pride is a 1941 novel by the British writer Phyllis Bottome.[1] It takes place in wartime London and follows an East End family during the height of The Blitz during the summer of 1940. It is seen through the eyes of a seven year old boy Ben, named after Big Ben, whose mother is a charwoman and his father is a docker. During the novel his neighbours are killed in an air raid and his own house bombed before he is eventually evacuated to the countryside at the conclusion.[2]
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| Author | Phyllis Bottome |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Drama |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber (UK) Little, Brown (US) |
Publication date | 1941 |
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- Calder, Robert L. Beware the British Serpent: The Role of Writers in British Propaganda in the United States, 1939-1945. McGill-Queen's Press, 2004.
- Welsh, Dave. Underground Writing: The London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf. Liverpool University Press, 2010.
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