Women's Writing on the First World War

Until now the impact of The First World War upon women writers has been less visible than that of their male counterparts. This anthology brings together women's writing about the War from the period 1914 to 1930. Letters, diary entries, and essays offer an interesting counterpoint to the novels and short stories through which women sought to encompass the extremes of wartime life.

Agnes Cardinal is Lecturer in Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury
Dorothy Goldman is an independent writer and researcher
Judith Hattaway is Lecturer at the University of Kent at Canterbury

Introduction

1

(8)

Part I. The War Begins

9

(112)

Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887-1956)

11

(1)

Three Ways Home

11

(2)

Radclyffe Hall (1883-1943)

13

(1)

Fraulein Schwartz

13

(19)

Margot Asquith (1864-1945)

32

(1)

War

32

(6)

Lena Christ (1881-1920)

38

(1)

Spies!

38

(2)

Adrienne Thomas (1897-1980)

40

(1)

Katrin Becomes a Soldier

40

(5)

Hilda M. Freeman (born c. 1890)

44

(1)

In Germany

45

(3)

E. Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960)

48

(1)

Christmas 1914

48

(12)

Maude Gonne (1866-1953)

60

(1)

Letter to William Butler Yeats

60

(31)

Part II. The War Observed

Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958)

91

(1)

La Pharmacienne

91

(1)

Rebecca West (1892-1983)

91

(1)

The Cordite Makers

91

(4)

M. A. St Clair Stobart (?-1954)

94

(1)

A Woman in the Midst of the War

95

(7)

May Sinclair (1863-1946)

102

(1)

A Journal of Impressions in Belgium

102

(5)

Claire dc Pratz (?-1916?)

107

(1)

A Frenchwoman's Notes on the War

107

(2)

Cicely Marly Hamilton (1872-1952)

109

(1)

Senlis

109

(3)

Annelise Ruegg (1879-1934)

112

(1)

Travels in Wartime

112

(1)

Mary Boyle O'Reilly (1873-1937)

113

(1)

In Berlin

113

(1)

Kate Kestien

114

(1)

A Night in a German Munitions Factory

114

(2)

Mildred Aldrich (1853-1928)

116

(1)

On the Edge of the War Zone

116

(5)

Part III. The War Comes Home

121

(62)

Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945)

123

(1)

Letters and Diary Entries

123

(2)

Augusta Isabella Gregory (1852-1932)

125

(1)

The Folk-Lore of the War

125

(2)

Olive Schreiner (1855-1920)

127

(1)

Letters

127

(3)

J.E. Buckrose (?-1931)

129

(1)

War Economy

130

(4)

Sarah MacDonald

134

(1)

Simple Health Talks

134

(7)

Monica Cosens

141

(1)

6676

141

(6)

Dorothy Peel (1872-1934)

147

(1)

Housekeeping in War Time

147

(7)

Blanche Wills Chandler

154

(1)

A Pattern of Propriety

154

(3)

A Little Nest Egg

157

(3)

Ellen La Motte (1873-1961)

159

(1)

Women and Wives

160

(5)

Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1884-1945)

165

(1)

The Godmother

165

(6)

Matilde Serao (1856-1927)

171

(1)

It Was the Will of God

171

(3)

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954)

174

(1)

They Are the Same

174

(1)

Marcelle Capy (1891-1962)

175

(1)

The War Got Him

175

(2)

Ellen La Motte (1873-1961)

177

(1)

A Belgian Civilian

177

(4)

Vera Brittain (1893-1970)

181

(1)

Roland Leighton

181

(2)

Part IV. Towards the Front

183

(42)

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954)

185

(1)

An English Camp

185

(2)

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

187

(1)

The War

187

(3)

Mademoiselle Miss

190

(1)

Letter VII

190

(2)

Gladys de Havilland

192

(1)

The `Fannys'

192

(6)

Helen Zenna Smith (1901-1985)

198

(1)

Not So Quiet...

198

(4)

Maria Napflin (1896-?)

202

(1)

Morphine

202

(2)

Rheta Childe Dorr (1866-1948)

203

(1)

To the Front with Botchkareva

204

(6)

Frances Wilson Huard (1885-?)

209

(1)

My Home in the Field of Mercy

210

(3)

Alexandra Pilsudski (1885-1963)

212

(1)

Memoirs

213

(7)

Zofia Nalkowska (1885-1954)

220

(1)

Count Emil

220

(5)

Part V. Writing the War

225

(100)

Enid Bagnold (1889-1981)

227

(1)

Inside the Glass Doors

227

(4)

Fanny Kemble Johnson (1868-?)

230

(1)

The Strange-Looking Man

231

(3)

Vernon Lee (1856-1936)

234

(1)

The Ballet of the Nations

234

(10)

Claire Goll (1891-1977)

244

(1)

The Hand of Wax

244

(6)

Constance Holme (1880-1955)

250

(1)

Speeding Up, 1917

250

(2)

Florence Kiper Frank (1885-1976)

251

(1)

The Moving-Picture Show

252

(1)

Phyllis Campbell

252

(1)

Back of the Front

253

(2)

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)

255

(1)

An Indiscreet Journey

255

(13)

H.D. (1886-1961)

268

(1)

Asphodel

268

(11)

Mary Borden (1886-1968)

279

(1)

The Beach

279

(4)

Mary Butts (1890-1937)

283

(1)

Speed the Plough

283

(7)

Mrs Henry Dudeney (1866-1945)

290

(1)

`Missing'

290

(10)

Helen Thomas (1877-1967)

299

(1)

World Without End

300

(5)

Liesbeth Dill (1877-1962)

305

(1)

Political Porcelain

305

(4)

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

308

(1)

Writing a War Story

309

(11)

Berta Lask (1878-1967)

320

(1)

Women in Battle

320

(3)

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

323

(1)

Diary 1921

323

(2)

Part VI. Retrospect

325

(44)

Jo Mihaly (1902-1994)

327

(1)

War Diary

327

(2)

Louise Weiss (1839-1983)

329

(1)

Memoirs

329

(2)

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954)

330

(1)

The Child of the Enemy

331

(1)

Helen Thomas (1877-1967)

332

(1)

Ivor Gurney

332

(2)

Antonia White (1899-1980)

334

(1)

Surprise Visit

334

(8)

Radclyffe Hall (1883-1943)

342

(1)

Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself

342

(15)

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

357

(1)

The Shooting Party

357

(7)

Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)

364

(1)

My Mother Won the War

364

(5)

Bibliography

369

(4)

Index

373

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