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Title

Women's writing of the First World War : an anthology / edited by Angela K. Smith.

Publication

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Smith, Angela K.

Description

xi, 340 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

From patriotic rhetoric to the gritty realism of the Front Line, this anthology juxtaposes women's writing of fact and fiction and aims to present a rounded picture of WW1 as it was lived and fought by women across Britain.

Subjects

• Geschichte 1914-1918
• 1900-1999
• World War > (1914-1918)
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• English literature > Women authors
• English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• English literature > 20th century > Women authors
• World War, 1914-1918 > Literature and the war

Genre/Form

• English literature – Women authors.
• English literature – 20th century – Women authors.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-336) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I The Beginning 11 -- 1 The outbreak of war 15 -- The War / Christabel Pankhurst 15 -- from Christine / Elizabeth von Arnim 16 -- A Strange London on Sunday / Beatrice Webb 22 -- A Terrible Week / Lady Kate Courtney 24 -- from The Tree of Heaven / May Sinclair 25 -- from Dead Yesterday / Mary Agnes Hamilton 29 -- 2 Belgium 32 -- Belgium / Mary Borden 32 -- A Brave Little Country / Gertrude Holland 34 -- from A Journal of Impressions in Belgium / May Sinclair 34 -- In Belgium / Emily Hobhouse 39 -- German Occupation / Mere Marie Georgine 45 -- from William an Englishman / Cecily Hamilton 50 -- II Attitudes to the War 61 -- 3 Patriotism 70 -- The Good of the Empire / Beatrice M. Trefusis 70 -- Women and the War / Christabel Pankhurst 71 -- On Sylvia Pankhurst / Elizabeth A., Mary L. Macleod 85 -- from The Tree of Heaven / May Sinclair 87 -- On Edith Cavell / Ethel Bilborough 89 -- War Until the Victory! / Emmeline Pankhurst 90 -- 4 Pacifism 93 -- The Women's Peace Conference / Sylvia Pankhurst 93 -- On Jane Addams / Lady Kate Courtney 101 -- On Jane Addams / Beatrice Webb 102 -- The War Conscience / Jane Addams 104 -- Women and War / Catherine Marshall 109 -- 5 Conscription 114 -- Conscription in England has Come! / Ethel Bilborough 114 -- The Military Service Bill / Sylvia Pankhurst 115 -- The No-Conscription Fellowship / Beatrice Webb 117 -- The Western Tribunal Appeal Court / Lady Kate Courtney 120 -- from Despised and Rejected / A.T. Fitzroy 122 -- 6 Love, separation and sexuality 129 -- from Letters to Private Will Martin / Emily Chitticks 129 -- from Testament of Youth / Vera Brittain 132 -- The Loss of a Brother / Lady Cynthia Asquith 136 -- from Not So Quiet ... / Helen Zenna Smith 141 -- from Children of No Man's Land / G.B. Stern 143 -- from Despised and Rejected / A.T. Fitzroy 145 -- from The Well of Loneliness / Radclyffe Hall 147 -- from Honourable Estate / Vera Brittain 167 -- Women and Wives / Ellen La Motte 169 -- III The Experience of the War 177 -- 7 The battle front 189 -- from On the Edge of the War Zone / Mildred Aldrich 189 -- from England's Effort / Mrs Humphry Ward 197 -- The Escape of the Royal Brewsters / Rosie Neale 209 -- from An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army / Flora Sandes 210 -- from Flanders and Other Fields / Baroness de T'Serclaes 212 -- The Retreat from Serbia / Mabel St Clair Stobart 222 -- 8 The home front 223 -- Insults to Soldiers' Wives and Mothers / Sylvia Pankhurst 223 -- German Guns in St James's Park / Patricia Hanbury 225 -- How Poor People Live Is a Mystery / Ethel Bilborough 226 -- Suddenly One Has Come to Notice the War / Virginia Woolf 226 -- The Potato Queue / Melvina Walker 227 -- from Real Food Economy / Ernestine Mills 229 -- The Lusitania / Ethel Bilborough 236 -- from Children of No Man's Land / G.B. Stern 236 -- The East End Air Raid / Sylvia Pankhurst 241 -- 9 Under fire 245 -- Zeppelins over Hull / Nell Hague 245 -- Gothas over Barnes / Virginia Woolf 246 -- from The Recollections of Vesta Tilley / Lady De Frece 247 -- Fearful Distorted Mechanical Birds / Ethel Bilborough 248 -- The Bombing of Scarborough / Phyllis Lunn 249 -- from The Crowded Street / Winifred Holtby 251 -- An Air Raid on Verdun / Winifred Kenyon 256 -- The Evacuation of Gallipoli / Mary Ann Brown 257 -- Bombardment / Mary Borden 257 -- 10 Medical care 260 -- Conspiracy / Mary Borden 260 -- The Tragedy of Serbia / Dr Elsie Inglis 262 -- from First World War Papers / Margaret Fawcett 271 -- Casualties / Eleanora Pemberton 274 -- After the Battle of Jutland / Mary Clarke 274 -- from We That Were Young / Irene Rathbone 276 -- The Boys / Enid Bagnold 278 -- The Masseuse / G.K. Brumwell 282 -- from Testament of Youth / Vera Brittain 283 -- Night Nurse / Lady Cynthia Asquith 288 -- 11 Other war work 290 -- from Not So Quiet ... / Helen Zenna Smith 290 -- Base Notes / Muriel Thompson 297 -- The YMCA Rest Camp / Irene Rathbone 299 -- The Censor's Office / Beatrice M. Trefusis 300 -- The Land Army / Mary L. Macleod 300 -- The Sinews of War -- France / F. Tennyson Jesse 302 -- from We That Were Young / Irene Rathbone 308 -- from Three Years or the Duration / Peggy Hamilton 313 -- IV The End 315 -- 12 Armistice and aftermath 318 -- Armistice Signed / Patricia Hanbury 318 -- The Great Day of Days / Hilda Craven 319 -- The Aspect of Peace / Virginia Woolf 320 -- Peace in London / Beatrice Webb 322 -- The War Is Won / Britannia 322 -- from The Happy Foreigner / Enid Bagnold 323 -- The Prospect of Peace / Lady Cynthia Asquith 324 -- from Honourable Estate / Vera Brittain 324 -- 1 Sylvia Pankhurst 149 -- 2 The two 'Women of Pervyse' 150 -- 3 Air raid damage 151 -- 4 Dr Elsie Inglis 152 -- 5 Ward in the Duchess of Westminster's Hospital at Le Touquet 152 -- 6 First Aid Nursing Yeomanry at St Omer 153 -- 7 Women of the Land Army 153 -- 8 Women workers operating a shell-case-forming machine 154 -- 9 Men and women workers in a shell-filling factory 155.

ISBN

• 0719050723
• 0719050731 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 43786902
• SCSB-12660037

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library