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Julia: Reminiscences of a Year In Madeleine's Life as a London Shop Girl
In her latest book Mrs. Robert Henrey has drawn on her experience when, as a golden-haired girl of seventeen, the young Madeleine worked for rather more than a year as a very junior assistant in a famous Regent Street department store that contained, as it still does, so many things that a woman can desire.
These reminiscences, bright with the freshness of youth, suggest that for a girl some problems remain constant, irrespective of fashion or point of time. Youth often feels near to tragedy and despair. This episode in Madeleine's life, lived with febrile intensity, falls between The Little Madeleine and Madeleine Grown Up, and has so far remained a troubled, difficult secret.
Rightly, we think, Madeleine felt that her London Shop-girl days needed a volume of their own. Julia is its name. To reflect upon and recollect her youth more easily she decided to write of herself as Julia in the third person. The Little Madeleine becomes the Little Julia- a Julia searching for love, though not yet finding it, always under the influence of her dressmaking mother, watching wide-eyed the difficulties and aspirations of other, older girls.
It is around such problems that Mrs. Henrey has woven a fascinating narrative that must appeal to her thousands of admirers throughout the world.
These reminiscences, bright with the freshness of youth, suggest that for a girl some problems remain constant, irrespective of fashion or point of time. Youth often feels near to tragedy and despair. This episode in Madeleine's life, lived with febrile intensity, falls between The Little Madeleine and Madeleine Grown Up, and has so far remained a troubled, difficult secret.
Rightly, we think, Madeleine felt that her London Shop-girl days needed a volume of their own. Julia is its name. To reflect upon and recollect her youth more easily she decided to write of herself as Julia in the third person. The Little Madeleine becomes the Little Julia- a Julia searching for love, though not yet finding it, always under the influence of her dressmaking mother, watching wide-eyed the difficulties and aspirations of other, older girls.
It is around such problems that Mrs. Henrey has woven a fascinating narrative that must appeal to her thousands of admirers throughout the world.
251 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1971
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About the author
Madeleine Henrey
31 books2 followersPublished as "Mrs Robert Henrey".
Madeleine Mathilde Henrey (1906–2004) was a French-born author of over 30 books, mainly of an autobiographical nature, that enjoyed considerable fame in post-war Britain and established rural lid-off-a-small-town titles as a genre.
Henrey was born Madeleine Gal, the daughter of a miner and seamstress, and moved as a child to Soho, in London, following her father's death. She met her future husband, Robert Henrey, at the Savoy Hotel; they were married in 1928 and their romance would prove to be a lifelong attachment lasting until his death in 1982.
Her writing career stretched from 1941 to 1979 and during this time she brought many of the events of her childhood and career to public attention.
Madeleine Mathilde Henrey (1906–2004) was a French-born author of over 30 books, mainly of an autobiographical nature, that enjoyed considerable fame in post-war Britain and established rural lid-off-a-small-town titles as a genre.
Henrey was born Madeleine Gal, the daughter of a miner and seamstress, and moved as a child to Soho, in London, following her father's death. She met her future husband, Robert Henrey, at the Savoy Hotel; they were married in 1928 and their romance would prove to be a lifelong attachment lasting until his death in 1982.
Her writing career stretched from 1941 to 1979 and during this time she brought many of the events of her childhood and career to public attention.
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