Albert E. Marriott

    Helen Zenna Smith, "Not so Quiet...", first edition, 1930

    War, Invasion & Spy

    Smith (Helen Zeena, pseud. Evadne Price) “Not so Quiet…”

    £250


    Stepdaughters of War
    London, Albert E. Marriott, 1930.

    First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.

    Originally commissioned to parody Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), this spirited and somewhat brutalising account of the First World War instead became a serious, harrowing novel, in part based on the (now lost) diaries of Winifred Young, who served in France during the war as an ambulance driver. Uncommon.