| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .P6 V38 1985 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13815 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 820307513 (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Vaughan, Elizabeth
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The Ordeal of Elizabeth Vaughan :
- Remainder of title - a wartime diary of the Philippines /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - edited by Carol M. Petillo
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Athens, GA :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - University of Georgia Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1985.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 312 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 25 x 16 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Elizabeth Head Vaughan was a remarkable and independent American woman for that time: she was a scholar and had finished a master's degree in sociology, had taught courses in a university and had worked as a research assistant for a project on culture, geography and economy in the southern US. She went to Shanghai, stopped by the Philippines and taught English at the University of the Philippines. She also fell in love and married an American civil engineer. They settled down in the Visayas, and were living in Bacolod when the war broke out. Elizabeth was alone with her two children, as her husband was in Manila on a business trip. Her wartime diary begins on December 8, 1941, recording her anxieties and daily concerns, particularly on trying to reach her husband. (Her husband, stuck in Manila, joined the USAFFE, was captured on Bataan and died in prison camp). This diary records the struggles of a wife and mother now having to care for two children alone, while in the midst of war; she was concentrated in Bacolod with other "enemy" nationals, was moved to Santo Tomas Internment Camp in March 1943, where she was liberated in 1945. She was repatriated to the US; her camp experiences, notes and sociological mind enabled her to write a scholarly dissertation on the community forced behind walls. She died of cancer in 1957; her sister saved Elizabeth's diary, and put it into shape. Petillo, an American historian, added notes and further edited the manuscript. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Vaughan, Elizabeth,
- Dates associated with a name - 1905-1957
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Concentration Camps
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Personal narratives, American.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Petillo, Carol M.
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