Abstract
This paper explores a little-known ‘book of days’ aimed at boys and their mothers in the wake of the First World War. Written by one Nora Brodie Thornhill, A Little Book for Mothers and Sons was published in London in 1919. In it the author uses anecdotes of army chaplains and others to create a religious coping mechanism for boys, as read by and with their mothers. The article provides context for this kind of text, and for diverse ways in which the relationship between mothers and sons was exploited before, during and after the war.
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