NAOMI THE POET AND NELLA THE HOUSEWIFE: FINDING A SPACE TO WRITE FROM

Northern housewife Nella Last and novelist and essayist Naomi Mitchison were from widely different social and cultural backgrounds but shared one common point: both kept wartime diaries for Mass-Observation from 1939 to 1945.This article, after briefly addressing the circumstances in which such different Storage Pier women came to be involved in th