Explores written representations of First World War experience, produced
by a variety of different women. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished
material, in the form of diaries and letters, the book examines the way
in which the variety of new roles undertaken by women triggered a
search, conscious or otherwise, for appropriate new forms of expression.
Through the twin approaches of literary criticism and historical
exploration, the book contributes an important new strand to the
scholarship of women and war. Expands current notions of how modernisms
should be defined. This volume compliments Angela K. Smith's 1999
publication, Women's writing of the First World War: An anthology
(MUP).