Young Mrs. Burton
By: Margaret Penn.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Description: Hilda Winstanley marries a journalist who becomes an officer in World War I. When he returns a hero, wounded, alcoholic, and unemployable, Hilda is forced to become the family breadwinner. Total destitution ultimately forces her to allow her own children to be adopted by others.
Notes: Originally published, London , Cape, 1954.