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| Genre/Form: | Anthologie Literary collections Anthologies |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Agnes Cardinal; Dorothy Goldman; Judith Hattaway |
| ISBN: | 0198122802 9780198122807 |
| OCLC Number: | 41176601 |
| Description: | xiii, 374 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | The war begins. Three ways home / Sheila Kaye-Smith -- Fräulein Schwartz / Radclyffe Hall -- War / Margot Asquith -- Spies! / Lena Christ -- Katrin becomes a soldier / Adrienne Thomas -- In Germany / Hilda M. Freeman -- Christmas 1914 / E. Sylvia Pankhurst -- Letter to William Butler Yeats / Maude Gonne. The war observed. La pharmacienne / Dorothy Canfield -- The cordite makers / Rebecca West -- A woman in the midst of the war / M.A. St Clair Stobart -- A journal of impressions in Belgium / May Sinclair -- A Frenchwoman's notes on the war / Claire de Pratz -- Senlis / Cicely Mary Hamilton -- Travels in wartime / Annelise Rüegg -- In Berlin / Mary Boyle O'Reilly -- A night in a German munitions factory / Käte Kestien -- On the edge of the war zone / Mildred Aldrich. The war comes home. Letters and diary entries / Käthe Kollwitz -- The folk-lore of the war / Augusta Isabella Gregory -- Letters / Olive Schreiner -- War economy / J.E. Buckrose -- Simple health talks / Sara MacDonald -- 6676 / Monica Cosens -- Housekeeping in war time / Dorothy Peel -- A pattern of propriety / Blanche Wills Chandler -- A little nest egg -- Women and wives / Ellen La Motte -- The godmother / Lucie Delarue-Mardrus -- It was the will of God / Matilde Serao -- They are the same / Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -- The war got him / Marcelle Capy -- A Belgian civilian / Ellen La Motte -- Roland Leighton / Vera Brittain. Towards the front. An English camp / Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -- The war / Gertrude Stein -- Letter VII / Mademoiselle Miss -- The 'Fannys' / Gladys de Havilland -- Not so quiet... / Helen Zenna Smith -- Morphine / Maria Näpflin -- To the front with Botchkareva / Rheta Childe Dorr -- My home in the field of mercy / Frances Wilson Huard -- Memoirs / Alexandra Pilsudski -- Count Emil / Zofia Nałkowska. Writing the war. Inside the glass doors / Enid Bagnold -- The strange-looking man / Fanny Kemble Johnson -- The ballet of the nations / Vernon Lee -- The hand of wax / Claire Goll -- Speeding up, 1917 / Constance Holme -- The moving-picture show / Florence Kiper Frank -- Back of the front / Phyllis Campbell -- An indiscreet journey / Katherine Mansfield -- Asphodel / H.D. -- The beach / Mary Borden -- Speed the plough / Mary Butts -- 'Missing' / Mrs. Henry Dudeney -- World without end / Helen Thomas -- Political porcelain / Liesbeth Dill -- Writing a war story / Edith Wharton -- Women in battle / Berta Lask -- Diary 1921 / Virginia Woolf. Retrospect. War diary / Jo Mihaly -- Memoirs / Louise Weiss -- The child of the enemy / Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -- Ivor Gurney / Helen Thomas -- Surprise visit / Antonia White -- Miss Ogilvy finds herself / Radclyffe Hall -- The shooting party / Virginia Woolf -- My mother won the war / Sylvia Townsend Warner. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Agnès Cardinal, Dorothy Goldman, and Judith Hattaway. |
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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 Today Read more...
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- Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 -- Anthologies.
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- Littérature -- 20e siècle -- Anthologies.
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