Women's Writing of the First World War: An Anthology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719050731 ISBN 13: 9780719050732

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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. -- .

About this title

Synopsis:

Women from across the social spectrum had their lives transformed by World War I. The literary culture of the early 20th century led a surprising number of women to write about their experiences, recording everything from their emotional responses and political impulses to their new experiences of the world of work. Writing 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 sometimes tragic, sometimes comic testimony. From patriotic rhetoric to the gritty realism of the Front Line, this anthology juxtaposes fact and fiction and aims to present a rounded picture of World War I as it was lived and fought by women across Britain.

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0719050731
• ISBN 13: 9780719050732
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356
• Editor: Smith Angela