E: It's a Battlefield (1934)

five chapters, written Sept 1932 to Aug 1933

"a large inclusive picture of a city which should use my experience as much as my imagination"

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Kinglake [quoted passage] 

wooden bear?

JM Murry

Lady Ottoline

Jim Drover, a bus driver
Milly, his wife
Conrad Drover, his brother
Kay, Milly's sister
Surrogate, rich economist (based on John Middleton Murry, according to GG)
Jules, cafe worker
Conder, Communist journalist
Caroline Bury, society hostess (inspired by Lady Ottoline Morrell)