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Letters from the Little Blue Room: An Intimate Portrait of World War I

Daisy Thomson Gigg

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"A new and unique voice and an important addition to the canon of literature of the First World War." - Prof. Angela K. Smith, author of Women's Writing of the First World War

A 'lost' women's classic from World War I - discovered in the rare books room of the British Library, last seen in 1917!

A Scottish woman sends funny, moving, compassionate and rousing letters to her younger brother, set to fight with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the trenches of WWI. Dunfermline, her hometown and the base for the Scottish regiment The Black Watch, morphs into an active home front.

Letter by letter we watch the war unfolding. Her brother trains with his cavalry regiment on England's Salisbury Plain and moves to frontline duty in France. Shocked by the war and those who inflame it, the sister's letters are frank and also encouraging. Others are vanishing. She needs her brother, her young Canadian, to survive. Complete with an introduction, a closing biography, and original photographs of the author and the period.



Book Details

  • Publisher: Barbican Press
  • Publish Date: Oct 1st, 2024
  • Pages: 230
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.00in - 0.56in - 0.78lb
  • EAN: 9781909954489
  • Categories: • World Literature - Scotland - 20th Century• Historical - 20th Century - World War I• Women

About the Author

Gigg, Daisy Thomson: -

Daisy Thomson Gigg (1885-1953) was born in Brooklyn, New York . At the age of four she moved to Scotland with her Scottish family, settling in the town of Dunfermline. Letters from the Little Blue Room was her first book, published anonymously in . 1916, followed by a book of short stories, The Call. Styling herself 'a fiction writer' she emigrated back to the USA in 1921. Marrying a fellow novelist and farmer she settled in Penrose, Colorado, where she continued writing stories and being active in the suffragette movement.

Praise for this book

"A compelling read. Daisy Thomson Gigg creates a voice as alive and open, fresh and engaged as when she sat at the little round table, beneath the red-shaded lamp more than a century ago, writing to her Boy, determined to keep his spirits up and remind him of home. Her Scottish identity resonates in every sentence, her political idealism, compassion and love shine out even on her darkest days. Hers represents a new and unique voice and an important addition to the canon of literature of the First World War."
- Angela K. Smith, author of Women's Writing of the First World War
"Letters of an ordinary woman living in a country town where only a tributary of the broad war-stream flows, to a young brother who came over with the first Canadian contingent to serve in "the war to end war." They do not aim at being clever nor deep, but are just plain letters-bits of gossip, comments on all manner of subjects, little bits of advice and cheer, and a fair share of humor. A fascinating human document."
- The Herald, from 1917