British Children's Fiction in the Second World War

Owen Dudley Edwards is Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on the history, culture and literature of Ireland, Scotland, and America.

• Contents; Part One; 1. Orwell v. Richards: Children's Fiction to 1940; 2. Rations and Quislings; 3. Evacuees and Gurus; 4. Women and Fathers; 5. Officials and Genteel-men; Part Two; 6. God's Things and Others'; 7. Identity, Authority and Imagination; 8. Gender; 9. Class; 10. Race; Epilogue; Sources, Guides and Regrets; Index

Omnivorously well read, intelligently speculative, occasionally cavalier with with detail while always succeeding with the bigger picture, [Edwards] is an unashamed enthusiast for most of the authors he has quarried so extensively.