Women and Children First: The Fiction of Two World Wars
Mary Cadogan
301 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0575024186
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1978
Lively, incisive account of the representation of women and children in war fiction, keen to expose humbug and deplore cliché, but to praise wit and sensitivity. First World War writers included are Berta Ruck, Evadne Price, Enid Bagnold, Rebecca West, Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain, Brenda Girvin, Bessie Marchant, among others.