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|title=Struggle or Starve

|reviewer=Luci Davin

|genre=Autobiography

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=323

|publisher=Honno Welsh Women's Press

|date=October 2009

|isbn=978-1906784096

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Struggle or Starve is a collection of autobiographical writings about girls' and women's lives in South Wales between the wars. This is a new edition of a book first published in 1998 by Honno, an independent publisher set up to encourage Welsh women writers. Most of the contributors in this book came from miners' families and grew up in real poverty and economic insecurity.

Other reading suggestions include other anthologies of reminiscences and works of fiction published by Honno. [[Back Home by Bethan Darwin]] is reviewed here and is partly set later in the 1940s. [[The Eyrie by Stevie Davies]] is a novel about an elderly woman living in South Wales. [[Nella Last's Peace: The Post-war Diaries of Housewife 49 by Patricia Malcolmson (Editor), Robert Malcolmson (Editor)|Nella Last's Peace]] is the edited diaries of a woman after the Second World War (again, a little later than the setting of the writings in this book).

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