The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London Tapa blanda - 2017
de Penrose Halson
Descripción de contraportada
In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London's Bond Street and set about the delicate business of matchmaking. Drawing on the bureau's extensive archives, Penrose Halson--who many years later found herself the proprietor of the bureau--tells their story, and those of their clients.
From shop girls to debutantes, widowers to war veterans, clients came in search of security, social acceptance, or simply love. And thanks to the meticulous organization and astute intuition of the Bureau's matchmakers, most found what they were looking for.
Penrose Halson draws from newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements, registration forms, film, record cards, ledgers, photographs, letters, and books by the proprietors themselves to bring the romance and heartbreak of matchmaking during wartime to vivid, often hilarious, life in this unforgettable story of a most unusual business.
Detalles
- Título The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London
- Autor Penrose Halson
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Páginas 352
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial William Morrow & Company
- Fecha de publicación 2017-05-02
- ISBN 9780062562661 / 0062562665
- Peso 0.55 libras (0.25 kg)
- Dimensiones 7.8 x 5.2 x 1.1 pulgadas (19.81 x 13.21 x 2.79 cm)
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Temas
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects London (England) - Social life and customs -, Dating services - England - London - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.730
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- Library Journal, 05/15/2017, Page 0
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