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Dear Mr Snippet
BIO
As a trained teacher, Roseanna Rolph enjoyed using stories and objects from the past to shed light on the present. Utilising research skills developed during her studies for her MA in Education, and a fair amount of detective work, she has carefully pieced together Dear Mr Snippet, a unique time-capsule of a story, which juxtaposes life in the armed forces and as a civilian, and details how her grandparents worked to fight their own and their country’s wars. Through this touching memoir, she shares her fondness for how letters, diaries and photographs transport us back to another time, whilst unveiling new understandings. Since writing Dear Mr Snippet, Roseanna has been given an elected membership to the Royal Historical Society.
Following in her grandparent’s footsteps, she lives in Surrey, England, and likes nothing better than to correspond by and receive letters, recognising that they can become important touchstones and keepsakes at different points of our lives. She can often be found rummaging in antique shops in search of another curiosity from the past.
LITTLE TROOPERS
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Dear Mr Snippet is a heart-wrenching true story of enduring love, told through real WWII correspondences between a husband, wife and their children. The impact of war on children becomes an increasingly important focus as the story progresses, with John and Rita’s two young children struggling with absent parents and separation, housing difficulties, ill-health, and constant uncertainty, to name but a few.
This focus, combined with her own childhood experiences with parental absence, led Roseanna to contact Little Troopers, a charity supporting all military children who have parents currently serving in the British Armed Forces. The charity is delighted to be collaborating with Roseanna on this project, using Dear Mr Snippet to help raise awareness of its incredible work.
Little Troopers says: “Being separated from loved ones for long periods of time is one of the hardest aspects of serving in the military, and children of our Armed Forces personnel can find this separation particularly challenging. This remains just as true today as it was for Rita and John’s children during World War II.”
If you would like to support Little Troopers or learn more about the charity’s work, please visit www.littletroopers.net .
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