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

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war.

World War, 1914-1918.

English literature--20th century--Women authors.

English literature.

Women authors.

Physical Description:

340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2000.

Summary:

The literary culture of the early 20th century led a surprising number of women to write about their experiences, recording everything from their emotional responses and political impulses to their new experiences of the world of work. In this book, writings by women as diverse as Sylvia Pankhurst, Virginia Woolf and Vesta Tilley are blended with extracts from the private diaries and letters of "unknown" women, to provide a fully rounded picture of the First World War as it was lived and fought by women across Britain.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0719050723

0719050731

OCLC:

43786902