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Author:

Orr, Lois. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008065957

Title:

Letters from Barcelona : an American woman in revolution and civil war / Lois Orr ; with some materials by Charles Orr ; edited by Gerd-Rainer Horn.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xiv, 209 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Orr, Lois.
Orr, Lois--Correspondence.
Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Personal narratives, American.
Barcelona (Spain)--History--20th century.
Spain--Women.--Civil War, 1936-1939--Women.
Spain--Foreign public opinion, American.--Civil War, 1936-1939--Foreign public opinion, American.
Americans--Barcelona--Barcelona--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Orr, Charles. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88614207
Horn, Gerd-Rainer. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95104472

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The Catalan revolution / Gerd-Rainer Horn -- Women's autobiographies : history and meaning / Gerd-Rainer Horn -- The language of symbols and the barriers of language : foreigners' perceptions of social revolution (Barcelona 1936-1937) / Gerd-Rainer Horn -- Letters from Barcelona (autumn) / Lois Orr -- Letters from Barcelona (winter) / Lois Orr -- Letters from Barcelona (spring) / Lois Orr -- Reminiscences / Charles Orr. Homage to Orwell : as i knew him in Catalonia. The repentant spy -- In Stalin's secret Barcelona jail. Some facts on the persecution of foreign revolutionaries in Republican Spain / Charles Orr. The May days and my arrest / Lois Orr. List of foreign detainees - Facsimile (Lois and Charles Orr). Letter fragment from Paris, January 1938 / Lois Orr -- (Auto-)biographical notes / Lois Orr.

ISBN:

0230527396
9780230527393

OCLC:

(OCoLC)226357029

LCCN:

2008042642

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)