About the Book
A fully-rounded anthology of women's writing from World War One containing the known and unknown biographers and fiction writers of the period.. Explores the impact of the war on ideology, gender, genre and society and is a perfect complimentary text to Trudi Tate's Women Men and the Great War.. Aims to re-read the First World War as a female experience by drawing on the public and private sources of a wide range of different women.. Uses diaries, letters, articles and essays many of which have not been published.. Invaluable source document for scholars in many disciplines.
Table of Contents:
Part 1 The beginning: the outbreak of war - the war, Christabel Pankhurst, from "Christine", Elizabeth von Arnim, a strange London on Sunday, Beatrice Webb, a terrible week, Lady Kate Courney, from "The Tree of Heaven", May Sinclair, from "Dead Yesterday", Mary Agnes Hamilton; Belgium - Belgium, Mary Borden, a brave little country, Gertrude Holland, from " A Journal of Impressions in Belgium", May Sinclair, in Belgium, Emily Hobhouse, German occupation, Mere Marie Heorgine, from "William an Englishman", Cecily Hamilton. Part 2 Attitudes to the war: patriotism - the good of the empire, Beatrice M. Trefusis, women and the war, Christable Pankhurst, on Sylvia Pankhurst, Elizabeth A., Mary L. Macleod, from "The Tree of Heaven", May Sinclair, on Edith Cavell, Ethel Bilborough, war until the victory!, Emmeline Pankhurst; pacifism - The Women's Peace Conference, Sylvia Pankhurst, on Jane Addams, Lady Kate Courtney, on Jane Addams, Beatrice Webb, the war conscience, Jane Addams, women and war, Catherine Marshall; conscription - conscription in England has come!, Ethel Bilborough, the Military Service Bill, Sylvia Pankhurst, the no-conscription fellowship, Beatrice Webb, the Western Tribunal Appeal Court, Lady Kate Courtney, from "Despised and Rejected", A.T. Fitzroy; love, separation and sexuality - from "Letters to Private Will Martin", Emily Chitticks, from "Testament of Youth", Vera Brittain, the loss of a brother, Lady Cynthia Asquith, from "Nor so quiet...", Helen Zenna Smith, from "Children of no Man's Land", G.B. Stern,from "Despised and Rejected", A.T. Fitzroy, from "Well of Loneliness", Radcliffe Hall, from "Honourable Estate", Vera Brittain, women and wives, Ellen La Motte. Part 3 The experience of war: the battle front - from "On the Edge of the War Zone", Mildred Aldrich, from "England's Effort", Mrs Humphry Ward, the escape of the royal brewsters, rosy Neale, from "An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army", Flora Sandes, from "Flanders and Other Fields", Baroness de T'Serclaes, the retreat from Serbia, Mabel St Clair Stobart; the home front - insults to soldiers' wives and mother, Sylvia Pankhurst, German guns in St James' Park, Patricia Hanbury, how poor people live is a mystery, Ethel Bilborough, suddenly one has come to notice the war, Virginia Woolf, the potato queue, Melvina Walker, real food economy, Ernestine Mills, the Lusitania, Ethel Bilborough, from "Children of no Man's Land", G.B. Stern, the East End air raid, Sylvia Pankhurst; under fire - zeppelins over Hull, Nell Hague. (Part contents).
About the Author :
Angela K. Smith is Lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth
