This outstanding audio collection is made up of two short stories, A
Day Off and The Single Heart, and three long stories which show the
variety of the author's great writing skills that make her one of the
most distinguished of women writers. In A Day Off, Jameson tells of a
day in the life of a middle-aged woman. A lonely woman, snatching at any
relationship she can make. It is a story of great perception and
understanding but tinged with bitterness and the inevitable sadness of
isolation.
Storm Jameson (1891- 1986) born to a North Yorkshire family of
shipbuilders. Jameson's fiery mother, who bore three girls, encouraged
Storm (christened Margaret Storm) to pursue an academic education. After
being taught privately and at Scarborough municipal school she won one
of three county scholarships which enabled her to read English
Literature at Leeds University. She then went on to complete an MA in
European Drama at King's College London. During her career Jameson wrote
forty-five novels, numerous pamphlets, essays, and reviews, in an effort
to make money. Her personal life suffered, and her first marriage to
schoolmaster Charles Douglas Clarke was an unhappy one. After they
divorced in 1925, Jameson went on to marry Guy Chapman, a fellow author,
and remained with him despite her apparent rejection of normal domestic
life. Storm Jameson was always politically active, helping to publish a
Marxist journal in the British section of the International Union of
Revolutionary Writers in 1934 and attending anti-fascist rallies.
