Yes, of course I have copies of everything George Orwell ever wrote *except* The Road to Wigan Pier, the book I actually need to reference. #amwriting #TheReturnoftheSoldier

Current status: completely rethinking the structure and argument of this chapter I have been working on for the past month. I hate this stage of chaos and keep having to remind myself that the time and words spent working through ideas have not been wasted. #writing #amwriting #TheReturnoftheSoldier

Apparently having a very difficult thing to read for a deadline that you know is going to make you cross is a very good stimulus for avoiding writing procrastination. Serious progress has been made on my sample chapter revisions today! #amwriting #TheReturnoftheSoldier #ReturningHome

Current status: up to my eyes in the history of early twentieth century town planning and the Garden City movement. The North/South divide in the historiography, let alone the history, is fascinating. #amwriting #TheReturnoftheSoldier #returninghome

It turns out that I can no longer multitask in quite the same way I could when I was a student. So, as I have some imminent deadlines, I will be focussing on #thereturnofthesoldier for the next couple of weeks. Hopefully percolation time will help when I return to #menandwar. (2/2) #amwriting

It has been a hot minute since I did a writing accountability post. This was due to a) half term, which is not conducive to focussed writing and b) trying to write both #menandwar and #thereturnofthesoldier at the same time. (1/2) #amwriting

Rebecca West – Rachel Malik Writing Rebecca West’s first novel The Return of the Soldier was first published in 1918 and has just been republished for the Virago 40 series. At the beginning of the novel, the soldier of the title is inju...

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A piece I wrote about #TheReturnofTheSoldier her first novel.
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