Articles on the Great War (as WWI was referred to prior to WWII) and baby layettes were two of my favorites. I swoon over old encyclopedias, maps, texbooks, etc. It's just so neat to get a glimpse of how differently the world was viewed, not that long ago.
Did you ever read Rilla of Ingleside? Anne of Green Gables' daughter, growing up during WWI. Lovely book, far better at teaching about WWI than any textbook (especially the Canadian wartime experience) but somewhat depressing, in the pervading belief that they were living through the worst and last terrible war. Damn.
I also find it sad that LMM wrote it in 1921, when those beliefs would've been semi-justified, but died in 1942. Right in the middle of the next Great War.
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Date: 2008-11-12 04:53 am (UTC)I swoon over old encyclopedias, maps, texbooks, etc. It's just so neat to get a glimpse of how differently the world was viewed, not that long ago.
Did you ever read Rilla of Ingleside? Anne of Green Gables' daughter, growing up during WWI. Lovely book, far better at teaching about WWI than any textbook (especially the Canadian wartime experience) but somewhat depressing, in the pervading belief that they were living through the worst and last terrible war. Damn.
I also find it sad that LMM wrote it in 1921, when those beliefs would've been semi-justified, but died in 1942. Right in the middle of the next Great War.