Women's Writing on the First World War
Published on 16. December 1999
Book
Hardback
388 pages
978-0-19-812280-7 (ISBN)
Description
The First World War inspired a huge outpouring of writing, including many classic accounts of the horrors of the trenches, written by men. What has been less visible until now is the Wars impact upon women writers, whose experience was often very different from that of their male counterparts. This anthology brings together women's writing from across the world, covering every genre of writing about the War from the period 1914 to 1930. Letters, diary entries, reportage, and essays, as well as polemical texts in favour of, or in opposition to, the hostilities, offer an interesting counterpoint to the novels and short stories through which women sought to encompass the extremes of wartime life as they saw it. This anthology demonstrates how the Great War acted as a catalyst for women writers, enabling them to find a public voice and to assert their own attitude to social and moral issues.
Reviews / Votes
A wide range of interesting and original material Years Work in English Studies Fascinating compilation from America, Britain and selected bits of Europe ... The book is neatly structured ... The editors' desire to reshape our understanding of war writing has real impact here, in its constant surprising shifts of perspective ... a salutary celebration of distaff creativity in the first decades of the century. Michelene Wandor, The Guardian Fascinating anthology ... the book adds not only to our understanding of the conflict but also extends our conception of the term war writing. Especially poignant are the first-hand accounts written by nurses History TodayMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
574 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-812280-7 (9780198122807)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Introduction; PART I: THE WAR BEGINS; 1. Three Ways Home; 2. Fraulein Schwartz; 3. War; 4. Spies!; 5. Katrin Becomes a Soldier; 6. In Germany; 7. Christmas 1914; 8. Letter to William Butler Yeats; PART II: THE WAR OBSERVED; 9. La Pharmacienne; 10. The Cordite Makers; 11. A Woman in the Midst of War; 12. May Sinclair (1863-1946); 13. A Frenchwomans Notes on the War; 14. Senlis; 15. Travels in Wartime; 16. In Berlin; 17. A Night in a German Munitions Factory; 18. On the Edge of the War Zone; PART III: THE WAR COMES HOME; 19. The Folk-Lore of the War; 20. Letters; 21. War Economy; 22. Simple Health Talks; 23. 6676; 24. Housekeeping in War Time; 25. A Pattern of Propriety; 26. A Little Nest Egg; 27. Women and Wives; 28. The Godmother; 29. It was the Will of God; 30. They are the Same; 31. The War Got Him; 32. A Belgian Civilian; 33. Roland Leighton; PART IV: TOWARDS THE FRONT; 34. An English Camp; 35. The War; 36. Letter VII; 37. The Fannys; 38. Not So Quiet; 39. Morphine; 40. To the Front with Botchkareva; 41. My Home in the Field of Mercy; 42. Memoirs; 43. Count Emil; PART V: WRITING THE WAR; 45. The Strange-Looking Man; 46. The Ballet of the Nations; 47. The Hands of Wax; 48. Speeding up, 1917; 49. The Moving-Picture Show; 50. Back of the Front; 51. An Indiscreet Journey; 52. Asphodel; 53. The Beach; 54. Speed the Plough; 55. Missing; 56. World Without End; 57. Political Porcelain; 58. Writing a War Story; 59. Women in Battle; 60. Diary; PART VI: RETROSPECT; 61. War Diary; 62. Memoirs; 63. Coming Home; 64. The Child of the Enemy; 65. Ivor Gurney; 66. Back to the First World War; 68. Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself; 69. The Shooting Party; 70. My Mother Won the War