By late 1941, women ... alone. The novelist Mary Wesley, author of The Camomile Lawn, described war as “very erotic”, recalling of her experience of WWII Britain, “We had been brought up so ...

In Wales the largest such factories were in Hirwaun, Glascoed and Bridgend which alone ... women from the south Wales valleys who had shouldered the burden of running a home during the inter-war ...