The Shelter Book: A Gathering Of Tales, Poems, Essays, Notes And Notions Arranged By Clemence Dane For Use In Shelters, Tubes, Basements And Cellars In War-time (1940) By Clemence Dane
 
Very scarce book.
 
Clemence Dane (1888–1965). For more than 50 years, the British novelist and playwright Clemence Dane turned out romances and melodramas that today are mostly unread. Many of her plays, novels, radio plays, and even detective stories are centered on the world of the theater, with which she had a life-long love affair.
 
Clemence Dane was the pen name of Winifred Ashton, who was born in Greenwich, England, on Feb. 21, 1888. After finishing her studies, she traveled to Switzerland to work as a French tutor, but she stayed only one year. Her early dream of becoming an artist prompted her to enroll in art school. She studied in London and Germany, yet she longed to write plays. After World War I she began to teach in a girls’ school, and soon, under an assumed name, she was writing. Her pen name was adapted from the name of a church, St. Clement Danes, near the theater district in London.
 
During World War II, Dane edited The Shelter Book: A Gathering of Tales, Poems, Essays, Notes, and Notions…for Use in Shelters, Tubes, Basements and Cellars in War-Time (1940) 
 
Hard Cover With Dust Jacket
307 pages
In Good Condition