Titlebook: Beyond the Home Front; Women‘s Autobiograph Yvonne M. Klein (Professor of English) Book 1997 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Pu

ORBIT

Mary Borden (1886–1968)tches in . (1929) combine brief vignettes written during or shortly after the War with short stories (among them ‘Blind’) written later, reflecting her post-war assessment of the meaning of her experience.

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健忘症

Kathleen Dayus (b. 1903)ring the First World War. Prompted by a grandchild’s curiosity about her life, Dayus wrote the story of her early years, ., in a school notebook. Some years later, that child showed the book to her history teacher, who arranged for its publication in 1982. Dayus became something of a celebrity, espe

杂色

Irene Rathbone (1892–1980)er novel, . (1932), draws upon those experiences as well as upon those of her close friend, Ruby Wyld, who worked in a munitions factory. The following excerpt, while not, strictly speaking, autobiographical, nevertheless provides a convincing account of the life of women munitions workers.

猛烈责骂

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角斗士

ESPY

Helen Thomas (1877–1967)nd, Edward, was killed at the front in 1917. Her tender, yet frank, account of their married life apparently violated the conventional standards of respect due the heroic dead. Although the original volumes appeared with the names of all the characters disguised, Robert Frost, a good friend of the T

调整

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8350-5444-8ldren were innocents whose preservation and protection demanded any sacrifice a soldier might be called upon to make. Nevertheless, the deaths of these two children, whether random or intentional, remain a haunting portent of the direction warfare would take in the coming century, a century defined by war.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-26077-4rbian sergeant, and lived in Yugoslavia where she was briefly called up, despite her age and the lingering effects of a severe war wound, as a member of the reserves in 1939. Her . (1916) aided in her successful fund-raising for the Serbian forces and made her an instant celebrity.