The Resource The GI bride, Iris Jones Simantel
The GI bride, Iris Jones Simantel
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The item The GI bride, Iris Jones Simantel represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item The GI bride, Iris Jones Simantel represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- The remarkable memoir of GI bride Iris Jones Simantel. Iris had escaped the Blitz but now lived in crippling poverty after the war - until a chance meeting changed her life. Aged just sixteen, she fell in love and married US soldier Bob Irvine, and soon set sail for a new life in America. It was the 1950s, the land of hope, dreams and Doris Day movies. But Iris ended up in a cramped Chicago bungalow, shared with Bob's parents, with a baby on the way and a husband turning daily into a stranger
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 285 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781405912648
- Label
- The GI bride
- Title
- The GI bride
- Statement of responsibility
- Iris Jones Simantel
- Subject
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- British -- United States
- Immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- Irvine, Bob
- Jones Simantel, Iris, 1938-
- Jones Simantel, Iris, 1938- -- Marriage
- Biography
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970
- War brides -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The remarkable memoir of GI bride Iris Jones Simantel. Iris had escaped the Blitz but now lived in crippling poverty after the war - until a chance meeting changed her life. Aged just sixteen, she fell in love and married US soldier Bob Irvine, and soon set sail for a new life in America. It was the 1950s, the land of hope, dreams and Doris Day movies. But Iris ended up in a cramped Chicago bungalow, shared with Bob's parents, with a baby on the way and a husband turning daily into a stranger
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- StDuBDS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1938-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jones Simantel, Iris
- Dewey number
- 973.92092
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Jones Simantel, Iris
- Jones Simantel, Iris
- Irvine, Bob
- War brides
- British
- Women immigrants
- Immigrants
- Biography
- United States
- United States
- Label
- The GI bride, Iris Jones Simantel
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 3330612
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- 285 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781405912648
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white)
- System control number
- (StDuBDSZ)BDZ0020892336
- Label
- The GI bride, Iris Jones Simantel
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 3330612
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- 285 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781405912648
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (black and white)
- System control number
- (StDuBDSZ)BDZ0020892336
Subject
- British -- United States
- Immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- Irvine, Bob
- Jones Simantel, Iris, 1938-
- Jones Simantel, Iris, 1938- -- Marriage
- Biography
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970
- War brides -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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