Letters from Barcelona
Subtitle: an American woman in revolution and civil war
By: Lois Orr ; with some materials by Charles Orr ; edited by Gerd-Rainer Horn.
Contributors: Horn, Gerd-Rainer.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780230527393
Subjects: Orr, Lois; Orr, Lois -- Correspondence; Americans -- Spain -- Barcelona -- History -- 20th century; Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Personal narratives, American; Barcelona (Spain) -- History -- 20th century; Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Women; Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Foreign public opinion, American
Genres: Correspondence.; Personal narratives, American.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Catalan revolution  / Gerd-Rainer Horn; title: Women's autobiographies : history and meaning / Gerd-Rainer Horn; title: The language of symbols and the barriers of language : foreigners? perceptions of social revolution (Barcelona 1936-1937) / Gerd-Rainer Horn; title: Letters from Barcelona (autumn) / Lois Orr; title: Letters from Barcelona (winter) / Lois Orr; title: Letters from Barcelona (spring) / Lois Orr; title: Reminiscences / Charles Orr. Homage to Orwell : as i knew him in Catalonia. The repentant spy; title: 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; title: (Auto-)biographical notes / Lois Orr.