Womens writing of the First World War an anthology [Paperback]

A fully-rounded anthology of women's writing from World War One containing the known and unknown biographers and fiction writers of the period. Explores the impact of the war on ideology, gender, genre and society and is a perfect complimentary text to Trudi Tate's Women Men and the Great War. Aims to re-read the First World War as a female experience by drawing on the public and private sources of a wide range of different women. Uses diaries, letters, articles and essays many of which have not been published. Invaluable source document for scholars in many disciplines.

Part One - The Beginning

1. The outbreak of war

2. Belgium

Part Two - Attitudes to the war

3. Patriotism

4. Pacificism

5. Conscription

6. Loves, separation and sexuality

Part Three - The experience of war

7. The battle front

8. The home front

9. Under fire

10. Medical care

11. Other war work

Part Four - The end

12. Armistice and aftermath

Angela Smith is a Lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth