The Second Battlefield Women, Modernism and the First World War

This book investigates the connection between women's writing about WWI and the development of literary modernisms, focusing on issues of gender which remain topical today. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished diaries and letters, the book examines the way in which the new roles undertaken by women triggered a search for new forms of expression. Blending literary criticism and history, the book contributes to the scholarship of women and expands our definition of modernisms.

Angela K. Smith is Lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth and editor of Women's Writing of the First World War.