The First World War inspired a huge outpouring of writing, including many classic accounts of the horrors of the trenches, written by men. What has been less visible until now is the War's impact upon women writers, whose experience was often very different from that of their male counterparts. This anthology brings together women's writing from across the world, covering every genre of writing about the War from the period 1914 to 1930. Letters, diary entries, reportage, and essays, as well as polemical texts in favour of, or in opposition to, the hostilities, offer an interesting counterpoint to the novels and short stories through which women sought to encompass the extremes of wartime life as they saw it. This anthology demonstrates how the Great War acted as a catalyst for women writers, enabling them to find a public voice and to assert their own attitude to social and moral issues.

About the Author
Agnes Cardinal is Lecturer in Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury; Dorothy Goldman is an independent writer and researcher; Judith Hattaway is Lecturer at the University of Kent at Canterbury

Reviews
ground-breaking anthology ... wide array of perspectives on WW1, from both sides of the fighting * B. Adler, Choice *
a very fine anthology * Times Literary Supplement *



Book Information
ISBN 9780198122814
Author Agnes Cardinal
Format Paperback
Page Count 388
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Dimensions(mm) 223mm * 145mm * 22mm