Which housewife, who had three of her war-time diaries published between 1981-2010, was Housewife, 49 based on?
Housewife, 49: Housewife, 49 is a 2006 television film based on the wartime diaries of Nella Last. Nella Last:  An edited version of the two million words or so she wrote during World War II was originally published in 1981 as "Nella Last's War: A Mother's Diary, 1939-45" and republished as "Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife 49" in 2006. Nella Last:  A second volume of her diaries, "Nella Last's Peace: The Post-war Diaries of Housewife 49", was published in October 2008, and a third volume "Nella Last in the 1950s" appeared in October 2010.
Nella Last