Expanding the literary canon: nurses' memoirs of World War I - Book Review

Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, Fall-Winter, 2002 by Anne Kelsch

Notes

(1) For example see Yvonne Klein, ed., Beyond the Home Front: Women's Autobiographical Writing of the Two World Wars (New York: New York University Press, 1997); Agnes Cardinal, Dorothy Goldman, and Judith Hattaway, eds., Women's Writing on the First Word War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Margaret Higonnet, ed., Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I (New York: Penguin, 1999); Joyce Marlow, ed., The Virago Book of Women and the Great War (London: Virago, 1999); Claire Tylee, Elaine Turner and Agnes Cardinal, eds., War Plays by Women (New York and London: Routledge, 1999); Angela K. Smith, ed., Women's Writing of the First World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000). See also Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, eds., No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988); Helen M. Cooper, Adrienne Munich and Susan Squier, eds., Arms and the Woman: War, Gender and Literary Representation (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989); Claire Tylee, The Great War and Women's Consciousness: Images of Militarism and Womanhood in Women's Writings, 1914-64 (New York: Macmillan, 1990); Miriam Cooke and Angela Woollacott, eds., Gendering War Talk (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993); Dorothy Goldman, ed., Women and World War I: The Written Response (London: Macmillan, 1993); Sharon Ouditt, Fighting Forces, Writing Women (London: Routledge, 1994); Suzanne Raitt and Trudi Tate, eds., Women's Fiction and the Great War (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997).

(2) La Motte's introduction to the republished edition can be found at: http:// historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5326.

(3) Ariela Freedman, "Mary Borden's Forbidden Zone: Women's Writing from No-Man's-Land," Modernism/Modernity 9.1 (2002), 109-124.

Anne Kelsch

Department of History, University of North Dakota

anne_kelsch@und.nokak.edu