Artsfest Online: VJ Day Diary of Beatrice Warde - Reading By Jessica Glaser

Jessica Glaser read the VJ day diary of Beatrice Warde, best known as the publicity manager of the Monotype Corporation, and as the ‘First Lady of Typography’. During World War Two, Warde became an anti-Fascist campaigner, and founded the Anglo-American book exchange, ‘Books Across the Sea’ with the intent of fostering cultural understanding through books and in so doing countering complacent attitudes towards the Nazi threat. As a diarist, she captured accounts of life in wartime Britain, which she addressed to her mother, the New York-based journalist, May Lamberton Becker. In additional to Warde’s VJ day diary, Jessica also read a 1940 piece by Warde published in the Outpost Newsletter.

Jessica Glaser is an associate Senior Lecturer in Graphic Communication at the University of Wolverhampton and partner in Bright Pink Communication Design. Jessica is working on a PhD examining Beatrice Warde as First Lady of Typography. She has written a number of books on design and typography, including The Graphic Design Exercise Book and is a regular contributor to conferences.

Thanks go the the University of Wolverhampton, ArtsFest, for hosting this event.