Research Catalog

Title

Company parade / Storm Jameson ; with a new introduction by Elaine Feinstein.

Author

Jameson, Storm, 1891-1986

Publication

London : Virago, 1982, c1934.

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Description

xii, 345 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

Set in London immediately after WW1, the novel, the first of a trilogy, centres on Hervey, the only girl in a group of pre-war graduates who are trying to regroup after the war. (Hence the title.) Returned from the front, the men are disillusioned and isolated. Society has changed and it is difficult for the remnants of their little group to integrate. Hervey has married an irresponsible man and had a son, who she has left in care in Yorkshire. She struggles to support herself and the boy from her wages as a copywriter in an advertising agency, in the evenings writing {u2018}popular{u2019} novels she is sure will make money. She exists on the edges of literary society but finds it difficult to reconcile her ambition with her need for an income, and her political views with her need to join {u2018}mainstream{u2019} society. She toys with socialism, joining a doomed left wing newspaper. But always her ambition to write, to live in London and to make sure her son has everything he needs are uppermost in her mind. The novel clearly uses autobiographical material, although it is not an autobiography. Jameson was interested in the perennial female dilemma of family/work balance and the psychological effects of this on the individual. The novel, written in 1934, is politically shrewd about the state of post WW1 Europe and the looming second war with Germany.

Series Statement

Virago modern classics

Uniform Title

Virago modern classics

Subject

texts. 1900-1945

Genre/Form

Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0860682978 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^85673272^

OCLC

• 8959586
• SCSB-12193586

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library