The literary memory of the Great War is dominated by the writings of Sassoon and Owen, Graves and Blunden. The voice is a male voice. This book is a study of what women wrote about militarism and world war 1

The heroic pageantry of war - journalism, women war-correspondents 1914-16, and the ideology of war (Mildred Aldrich, May Sinclair, Mrs St Clair Stobart); mental flannel - a woman's diary 1913-16 - propaganda and the construction of consciousness (Vera Brittain); "The Magic of Adventure" - the Western Front and women's tales about the war zone, 1915-16 (May Cannan, Katherine Mansfield, Ellen La Motte, Mary Borden); "despised and rejected" - censorship and women's pacifist novels of the First World War, 1916-18 (Mary Hamilton, Rose Macaulay, Rose Allatini); best-sellers - women's best-selling novels, 1918-28 (May Sinclair, Cicely Hamilton, Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall); memoirs of a generation - women's autobiographies and fictionalized war memoirs, 1929-33 (Enid Bagnold, Mary Borden, Evadne Price, Sylvia Pankhurst, Vera Brittain); "Old Unhappy, Far-off Things" - women's elegies, 1932-60 (Hilda Doolittle, Pamela Hinkson, Antonia White). Conclusion: "Forbidden Zone" - the Great War and women's myths. Appendices: dates of significant women writers and their war-writings; extracts from "The Defence of the Realm Act, 1914".