Editor: Smith, Angela
Paperback; 9 B&w Illustrations, Bibliography
351 pages
Published: March 2000
Manchester University Press
ISBN: 0719050731

The literary culture of the early 20th century led a surprising number of women to write about their experiences. In this book, writings by women as diverse as Sylvia Pankhurst, Virginia Woolf and Vesta Tilley are blended with extracts from the private diaries and letters of unknown women, to provide a fully rounded picture of the First World War as it was lived and fought by women across Britain.A fully-rounded anthology of women's writing from World War One containing the known and unknown biographers and fiction writers of the period. From patriotic rhetoric to the gritty realism of the Front Line, this anthology juxtaposes women's writing of fact and fiction and aims to present a rounded picture of World War I as it was lived and fought by women across Britain.