Intimate insights into the life of a woman in 1930s London, both
private and public. Gladys Langford (born in 1890) was a free
spirit, an aspiring writer (though not published in her lifetime),
an inveterate attender of plays, concerts, and films, and an astute
and sometimes acerbic observer of everyday life in 1930s London.
Married in 1913 (the marriage was later annulled), and chained as
she saw it to schoolteaching for most of her adult life, Gladys's
days were sometimes unhappy but also full of incident, and featured
a relationship with a longstanding but married lover, who was often
on her mind. Gladys's writing is crisp, colourful, and often
biting. Her diary, from 1936 to 1940, while frequently
introspective and full of self-doubts, is also a vivid portrait of
social life. She writes of her quirky friends, her family and
straightened family background, her schoolboys in Hoxton, and her
numerous Jewish acquaintances. She also has much to say about
London's public world - the behaviour of theatre audiences, street
entertainers, anti-Semitic outbursts, the roller-coaster moods of
people living through 1939, and fears of evacuation with the
outbreak of war. Patricia and Robert Malcolmson are social
historians with a special interest in Mass Observation, women in
World War Two, and English diaries written between the 1930s and
the 1950s.
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