Nella last biography

Last, Nella ___ 1890-1968 ___ British ___ n/a

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Nella was a housewife, married to a shop-fitter and joiner. The couple lived in Barrow-in-Furness - a shipbuilding town which, during the blitz, became a target for German bombing.

Nella designed and made her own clothes, and also worked with embroidery, weaving, and basketry, using these skills during the war for the WVS. She also ran canteens for civil defense workers dealing with the blitz and for troops billeted in Barrow.

Nella last biography

Her eldest son, Arthur, was a tax inspector and therefore exempted from conscription, but her youngest son, Cliff, joined the army. During the war, Nella wrote a diary for the Mass Observation Archive, amounting to over two million words.

It is considered to be the fullest and frankest of these diaries and is said to be exceptional not only for the length and regularity with which she wrote but also for the interest and quality of the writing. Nella continued writing a diary for rest of h