Titlebook: Women and World War 1; The Written Response Dorothy Goldman (Senior Lecturer in Literature and Book 1993 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of

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,Virginia Woolf’s ,: History and Memory,hrough its points of contact with the ‘ordinary’ life left behind, and in its destruction of a secure past. It is not possible to isolate or define Woolf’s ‘view’ on war,. only to follow its echoes in her work — but these, in . and in ., give a new dimension to the . of ’war novel’.

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,‘Eagles of the West’? American Women Writers and World War 1,er cent of other nationalities, the Americans were in action for only slightly over a year. Thus their losses were still alarmingly high’. The War changed American women’s perception of themselves, of men and of the future relationships between the sexes, and American women writers charted the change.

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Introduction,ate uselessness, the Great War has proved the dominant cultural perspective for the twentieth century on matters of physical and spiritual endurance, pacifism and patriotism, class barriers and habits of subservience, the understanding of mental breakdown. Paul Fussell has brilliantly disclosed its

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,‘Shining Pins and Wailing Shells’: Women Poets and the Great War,ar 1: crudely speaking, Jessie Pope writing patriotic rhymes like ‘The Call’ at home, against Wilfred Owen producing his bitter pacifist masterpieces from the trenches. I originally intended to represent female patriots by the phrase ‘white feathers’: notoriously distributed as public badges of sham

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,‘We’ll end in Hell, my passionate sisters’: Russian Women Poets and World War 1,live through emigration and exile, the death of one child in infancy and the arrest of another for espionage. Her husband, whom she had had to support through years of exile in France, persuaded her to return with him to Russia, only to fall a victim to Stalin’s purges. A few year after his executio

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,‘It is not the place of women to talk of mud’: Some Responses by British Women Novelists to World We who understand such matters. In time of war men should be left to get on with the fighting and after the war they are the appropriate people to write about it. As Judith Kazantzis asked wearily in her introduction to ., an anthology of World War 1 poetry by women, ‘Is there among men, not excludin