The Shelter in Bedlam

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TitleThe Shelter in Bedlam
Year for Search1937
Authors[Warde], [Beatrice Lamberton Becker](1900-69)
Tertiary AuthorsBeaujon, Paul [pseud.]
Date Published1937
PublisherPrivately ptd
Place PublishedNp
KeywordsFemale author
Annotation

Dystopia with everyone living in bomb shelters with the goal of everyone living permanently underground. Re-telling to a child of the Christmas story designed for the new circumstances but with an emphasis on how language has been warped to disguise the changes brought about by the dictator. 
Additional Publishers

A short passage was rpt. in The Golden Road: An Anthology of Travel. Ed. Arthur Stanley (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1938), 283. Also, with a new appendix, entitled Peace Under Earth: Dialogues from the Year 1946 Recorded by Paul Beaujon With a Frontispiece by Denis Tegetmeier. London: Megaw, 1938. U.S. ed. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1939. 
Title Note

Peace Under Earth: Dialogues from the Year 1946 Recorded by Paul Beaujon With a Frontispiece. London: Megaw, 1938
Illustration

1938 ed. illus. Denis Tegetmeier.
Pseudonym

Paul Beaujon [pseud.]
Holding Institutions

DLC, L
Author Note

Female author (1900-69)
Full Text

1937 [Warde, Beatrice Lamberton Becker] (1900-69). The Shelter in Bedlam. By Paul Beaujon [pseud.]. Privately ptd. A short passage was rpt. in The Golden Road: An Anthology of Travel. Ed. Arthur Stanley (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1938), 283. Also, with a new appendix, entitled Peace Under Earth: Dialogues from the Year 1946 Recorded by Paul Beaujon With a Frontispiece by Denis Tegetmeier. London: Megaw, 1938. U.S. ed. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1939. DLC, L, PSt

Dystopia with everyone living in bomb shelters with the goal of everyone living permanently underground. Re-telling to a child of the Christmas story designed for the new circumstances but with an emphasis on how language has been warped to disguise the changes brought about by the dictator. Female author.