Authors: Virginia Nicholson
manifested by very old people of exceptional character.’
Gertrude Caton-Thompson’s memoirs were not written for publication,
but were printed and distributed among her friends and colleagues. The act
of setting down her memories, and her desire to share them, reveal her as
a woman satisfied and grateful for the joys and rewards of a life well lived.
Here too, in book form, she could finally tell the truth about the man she
had loved so long ago, for the grief had passed. The wounds lay still
undisturbed. Love, she had learnt, was not everything in life.
The following notes give only principal sources consulted and are aimed – like the book itself – at the general reader rather than the academic. Where a particular work is used extensively, I have not repeated the source under the same chapter heading. Since in nearly all cases the text gives dates of any specific works mentioned I have not cited them in this section; for publication details and for further reading please turn to page for a select bibliography.
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. ‘As the historian . . .’: ‘War, Death and Mourning in Modern Britain’
by David Cannadine, in
Mirrors of Mortality – Studies in the Social History of Death
, ed. Joachim Whaley.
. Where Have All the Young Men Gone?
pages –
. ‘In . . .’: May Jones’s unpublished autobiography is held in the collection of working-class autobiographies at Brunel University.
pages –
. ‘Silent obscurity . . .’:
Mixed Memoirs
by Gertrude Caton-Thompson.
page
. ‘In . . .’: Statistics on population and on the casualties of the First World War are readily available, and throughout this book I have used a broad range of sources, including the Equal Opportunities Commission website/research and statistics
http://www.eoc.org.uk;
www.firstworldwar.com/features/casual-
ties.htm;
A War Imagined – The First World War and English Culture
by Samuel Hynes;
Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties – Flappers and Nymphs
by Billie Melman;
The Great War and the British People
by J. M. Winter; ‘Britain’s ‘‘Lost Generation’’ of the First World War’ by J. M. Winter, essay in
Population
Studies – A Journal of Demography
, Vol. .
pages –
. ‘On Christmas Day . . .’:
Testament of Youth
by Vera Brittain.
page
. ‘Lieutenant Will Martin . . .’: The correspondence between Emily Chitticks and her fiance´ Will Martin is held at the Imperial War Museum.
Singled Out
page
. ‘Another nurse . . .’:
I Saw Them Die – Diary and Recollections
by Shirley Millard, ed. Adele Comandini.
page
. ‘Poor human beings . . .’: Correspondence between Beatrice Webb and her sister quoted in
A Woman’s Place
by Ruth Adam.
page
. ‘This fact had to be faced . . .’:
Woman in a Man’s World
by Rosamund Essex.
pages –
. ‘Winifred Haward . . .’:
Two Lives
by Winifred Haward Hodgkiss.
page
. ‘Poor May . . .’:
Grey Ghosts and Voices
by May Wedderburn Cannan.
. ‘A world that doesn’t want me’
page
. ‘Gradually, the majority . . .’:
Hons and Rebels
by Jessica Mitford.
page
. ‘It was the general view . . .’:
I Leap Over the Wall
by Monica Baldwin.
page
. ‘Robert Roberts . . .’:
A Ragged Schooling – Growing up in the Classic Slum
by Robert Roberts.
pages –
. ‘For Vera Brittain . . .’:
Testament of Youth
by Vera Brittain.
pages –
. ‘Winifred Holtby . . .’:
Winifred Holtby as I Knew Her – A Study of the
Author and Her Works
by Evelyne White;
The Clear Stream – A Life of Winifred
Holtby by Marion Shaw;
Selected Letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain –
, ed. Vera Brittain and Geoffrey Handley-Taylor.
page
. ‘Not surprisingly . . .’:
Life Errant
by Cicely Hamilton.
page
. ‘The war destroyed . . .’:
Ivy When Young – The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett –
and
Secrets of a Woman’s Heart – The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett –
by Hilary Spurling.
page
. ‘Enid Starkie . . .’:
Enid Starkie
by Joanna Richardson.
page
. ‘All this helped . . .’:
A Singular Woman – The Life of Geraldine Aves –
by Phyllis Willmott.
pages –
. ‘Victorian conventions . . .’: ‘Ladies in Restaurants’, in
Testament of a
Generation – The Journalism of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
, ed. Paul Berry and Alan Bishop.
Notes on Sources
pages –
. ‘When she was nearly ninety . . .’: Amy Gomm’s autobiography
Water
Under the Bridge
is held in the collection of working-class autobiographies at Brunel University.
page
. ‘Bessie Webster . . .’: Correspondence and details supplied to the author by Miss Webster’s niece, Isabel Raphael.
page
. ‘Or take the writer . . .’: Author interview with Miss Jenkins, .
page
. ‘Similarly ‘‘Rani’’ Cartwright . . .’: Author interview with Miss Cartwright, .
page
. ‘When Vera Brittain . . .’:
Testament of Youth
by Vera Brittain.
pages –
. ‘In and . . .’:
Biography of Florence White
(unpublished) by D. J. Prickett.
. On the Shelf
page
. ‘When young Frances . . .’: Quoted in
Out of the Dolls House –
The Story of Women in the Twentieth Century
by Angela Holdsworth.
page
. ‘If the fire required poking . . .’:
Youth at the Gate
by Ursula Bloom.
page
. ‘Henrietta (Etty) Litchfield . . .’:
Period Piece – A Cambridge Childhood
by Gwen Raverat.
page
. ‘These women’s husbands . . .’:
Emma Darwin – The Inspirational Wife of
a Genius
by Edna Healey.
page
. ‘There is nothing . . .’:
Pedagogue Pie
by D. F. P. Hiley.
page
. ‘One of Ivy Compton-Burnett’s . . .’:
More Women than Men
by Ivy Compton-Burnett.
page
. ‘Thrilling to . . .’:
A Life’s Work
by Margaret Bondfield.
page
. ‘Rosamond Lehmann . . .’: Quoted in
Rosamond Lehmann – An Appreciation
by Gillian Tindall.
pages –
. ‘Winifred Haward . . .’:
Two Lives
by Winifred Haward Hodgkiss.
pages –
. ‘Phyllis Bentley . . .’:
O Dreams, O Destinations
by Phyllis Bentley; statistics cited from
Women’s Leisure in England –
by Claire Langhamer.
page
. ‘On her twenty-sixth birthday . . .’:
Public Servant, Private Woman – An
Autobiography
by Dame Alix Meynell.
Singled Out
h e a r t - t o - h e a r t c h a t s
page
. ‘After her brother . . .’:
Testament of Youth
by Vera Brittain.
a b u y e r s ’ m a r k e t
page
. ‘Girls like Irene Angell . . .’: Cited in
Out of the Dolls House – The Story
of Women in the Twentieth Century
by Angela Holdsworth.
page
. ‘Postal worker Evelyn Symonds . . .’: author interview with Miss Symonds, .
page
. ‘Barbara Cartland . . .’:
The Isthmus Years
by Barbara Cartland.
pages –
. ‘Beatrice Brown . . .’:
Southwards from Swiss Cottage
by Beatrice Curtis Brown.
page
. ‘Another of her contemporaries . . .’:
Mount Up with Wings
by Mary de Bunsen.
pages –
. ‘And sometimes it worked . . .’: Cases and statistics cited in
New
Horizons – A Hundred Years of Women’s Migration
by U. Monk, and
Emigration from
the British Isles
by W. A. Carrothers.
page
. ‘Dorothy Marshall . . .’: Interview with Dorothy Marshall, ‘Out of the Dolls House’ archive, Women’s Library.
page
. ‘Irene Angell’s office boss . . .’: Interview with Irene Angell, ‘Out of the Dolls House’ archive, Women’s Library.
page
. ‘The sex psychologist . . .’:
The Great Unmarried
by Walter Gallichan.
‘ b u t w h o w i l l g i v e m e m y c h i l d r e n ? ’
page
. ‘This was surely true . . .’: Held in the Marie Stopes papers, Wellcome Trust Library.
page
. ‘A survey of elderly spinsters . . .’:
Old and Alone – A Sociological Study of
Old People
by Jeremy Tunstall.
page
. ‘Never having thought . . .’: Interview with Irene Angell, ‘Out of the Dolls House’ archive, Women’s Library.
page
. ‘The short poem . . .’: All efforts to trace the author of this poem have so far failed.
page
. ‘The preacher Maude Royden . . .’:
The Moral Standards of the Rising
Generation
by Maude Royden.
pages –
. ‘Nobody would judge . . .’: Author interview with Miss Wakeham, .
pages –
. ‘This appears to . . .’:
Richmal Crompton – The Woman Behind William
by Mary Cadogan.
page
. ‘Winifred Holtby . . .’:
The Clear Stream – A Life of Winifred Holtby
by Marion Shaw.
Notes on Sources
page
. ‘Angela du Maurier . . .’:
Old Maids Remember
by Angela du Maurier.
page
. ‘Cicely Hamilton . . .’:
Life Errant
by Cicely Hamilton.
page
. ‘Realistic and level-headed . . .’: Author interview with Miss Cartwright, .
pages –
. ‘The author Elizabeth Jenkins . . .’: Author interview with Miss Jenkins, .
. Business Girls
w a r , w o r k a n d w i v e s
page
. ‘At the beginning . . .’: Statistics in this chapter have been drawn from a number of sources, including
Women Who Work
by Joan Beauchamp,
Back to
Home and Duty – Women between the Wars –
by Deirdre Beddoe,
Our
Work, Our Lives, Our Words
by Leonore Davidoff and Belinda Westover,
Women
Teachers and Feminist Politics –
by Alison Oram, ‘Britain’s ‘‘Lost Generation’’ of the First World War’ by J. M. Winter, essay in
Population Studies – A
Journal of Demography
, Vol. ; the BBC History website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
history/:
Women and Employment on the Home Front During World War One
.
pages –
. ‘Victoria Alexandrina Drummond . . .’:
The Remarkable Life of Victoria
Drummond, Marine Engineer
by Cherry Drummond.
pages –
. ‘That was certainly . . .’: Author interview with Miss Symonds, .
page
. ‘Miss Doreen Potts . . .’: Author interview with Miss Potts, .
page
. ‘In . . .’:
The Times
, May .
pages –
. ‘Nineteen-year old Mary Margaret Grieve . . .’:
Millions Made My
Story
by Mary Grieve.
page
. ‘The free stews . . .’:
Southwards from Swiss Cottage
by Beatrice Curtis Brown.
pages –
. ‘Like Mary Grieve . . .’:
All Experience
by Ethel Mannin.
page
. ‘Miss Skrine’s short account . . .’: From Mass Observation Archive, Day Surveys , held at Sussex University Library.
page
. ‘The journalist Leonora Eyles . . .’:
Careers for Women
by Leonora Eyles.
page
. ‘In
Lysistrata
. . .’:
Lysistrata, or Woman’s Future and Future Woman
by Anthony M. Ludovici.
Singled Out
pages –
. ‘The average woman worker . . .’:
Marriage Past and Present
by Margaret Cole.
page
. ‘There was shop work . . .’: Cited in
Out of the Dolls House – The Story
of Women in the Twentieth Century
by Angela Holdsworth.
page
. ‘Miss Doris Warburton . . .’: British Library Millennium Memory Bank Oral History collection.
page
. ‘Marjorie Gardiner . . .’:
The Other Side of the Counter – The Life of a
Shop Girl –
by Marjorie Gardiner.
page
. ‘In . . .’: Cited in
Biography of Florence White
(unpublished) by D. J.
Prickett.
page
. ‘One woman born . . .’: Cited in
Women’s Life and Labour
by F. Zweig.
page
. ‘Researchers looking . . .’:
Women Who Work
by Joan Beauchamp.
m i s s a l l - a l o n e i n t h e c l a s s r o o m
pages –
. ‘Education was the key . . .’: Cited in
Out of the Dolls House – The
Story of Women in the Twentieth Century
by Angela Holdsworth.