Pre-Owned Women Writers and the Great War (Hardcover) 0805788581 9780805788587

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Willa Cather Katherine Mansfield Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf are only a few literary luminaries among the vast number of women who wrote about World War I. But their ranks also include more ordinary writers who felt compelled to write about their often extraordinary experiences – as nurses ambulance drivers munitions workers and more – during the war. This text explores the literary social and psychological themes that emerge from the writing of women from all walks of life. Their diaries letters newspaper and magazine pieces short stories and novels document their powerful and complex response to what remains one of the most tumultuous periods in history.