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The Virago Book of Women and the Great War
Joyce Marlow
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Description for The Virago Book of Women and the Great War
Paperback. *A definitive and moving anthology of women's non-fiction writing on World War I, from Beatrice Webb to Emmeline Pankhurst. Num Pages: 432 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1KBB; 3JJF; DN; HBJD1; HBJK; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 306.
Joyce Marlow presents a fascinating and varied collection of women's writing on the Great War drawn from diaries, newspapers, letters and memoirs from across Europe and the States. Starting with material from 1914, she outlines the pre-war campaigns for suffrage and then the demand from women eager to be counted amongst those in action. Contemporary accounts and reports describe their experience on the field and reactions to women in completely new areas, such as surgery as well as on the home front. The words of women in the UK, America, France and Germany display a side to the war rarely ... Read more
Joyce Marlow presents a fascinating and varied collection of women's writing on the Great War drawn from diaries, newspapers, letters and memoirs from across Europe and the States. Starting with material from 1914, she outlines the pre-war campaigns for suffrage and then the demand from women eager to be counted amongst those in action. Contemporary accounts and reports describe their experience on the field and reactions to women in completely new areas, such as surgery as well as on the home front. The words of women in the UK, America, France and Germany display a side to the war rarely ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
307 g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860495595
SKU
V9781860495595
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Ref
99-10
About Joyce Marlow
Joyce Marlow's fascination with the Great War was fostered by her father who had served as a self-styled 'lance-private' of the Manchester Regiment. Her interest in the female experience of the same war was sparked when she read Vera Brittain's TESTAMENT OF YOUTH. She is from Manchester originally.
Reviews for The Virago Book of Women and the Great War
An interesting and well-chosen selection of contemporary accounts.
LITERARY REVIEW
A true labour of love
Kate Figes, WOMAN'S JOURNAL
What emerges most strongly, and much more clearly than ever before from this wonderfully lively and engaging anthology is the extraordinary diversity of the occupations adopted by women
Mark Bostridge, TLS
Fascinating ... these first-person ... Read more
LITERARY REVIEW
A true labour of love
Kate Figes, WOMAN'S JOURNAL
What emerges most strongly, and much more clearly than ever before from this wonderfully lively and engaging anthology is the extraordinary diversity of the occupations adopted by women
Mark Bostridge, TLS
Fascinating ... these first-person ... Read more