A Free-Spirited Woman: The London Diaries of Gladys Langford, 1936-1940

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 ...