Sill, Nany Anna, 1909-1982, Nancy Anna Sill diary, 1939-1945
- Title(s):
- Nancy Anna Sill diary.
- Published/Created:
- England, 1939-1945.
- Physical Description:
- 6 volumes ; 21 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsDA585 .S55Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16209067
- Classification:
- Archives & Manuscripts
- Notes:
- The present diarist is probably Nancy Anna Sill (1909-1982). She notes her birthday in a diary entry for August 9, 1940, with "Nancianna, born 1909." The England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007, records the death of Nancy Anna Sill (of Kendal) in 1982. The 1939 England and Wales Register lists a Nancy A Sill (born August 9, 1909) as a poulty farm heavy worker at Egham, Surrey.
Manuscript diaries by Nancy Anna Sill, of Kendal, recording her activities as a land-worker and gardener from 1939 to 1945, in Lakeland, Shropshire, Hampshire, Surrey, and the Lake District. The diaries frankly describe her work on the land, her friends, letters sent and received, her purchases and expenses, her social life, and love life.
While in Hampshire, Sill provides dispassionate details of the bombings and air battles. She reads voraciously, and writes and receives letters frequently. She is relatively comfortably off, but still seeking to improve her employment, and eventually gains a job at Chertsey, supervising land girls at 70/- per week. She eventually moves back north, working at Fairbank, living at Bowston Bridge in Kendal, and spending the rest of the war recording in detail her work and pleasure. - Subject Terms:
- Gardens and war.Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.Sill, Nany Anna, 1909–1982 -- Diaries.Women’s Land Army (Great Britain)World War, 1939–1945 -- Great Britain.World War, 1939–1945 -- Personal narratives, British.
- Form/Genre:
- Diaries.
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