Women's writing of the First World War: an anthology

by Angela K. Smith (Editor)

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.

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Elise Jensen]

I know, I know...this book is on my fiction and non-fiction shelves. What can I say, it's an anthology and some of the pieces are fiction and some aren't. I gave this book 3 stars as an average, but of course, like most compilations, I loved some pieces and didn't care for others. One strong criticism of the book is that it seems to have been very poorly edited (just in terms of the copy editor, not the person who chose which things to include in the anthology). The book is absolutely riddled with silly little typos. Some people may not be as bothered by this as I am, but it definitely drives me a little nutty.