Harris, Laurel. “Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Letters to Genevieve Taggard”. PMLA, Vol.
133
, No. 1, Jan. 2018, pp. 205-20. 205
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Employer | Sylvia Townsend Warner | STW
described to Genevieve Taggard (somewhat ironically) her war work for the WVS
. Harris, Laurel. “Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Letters to Genevieve Taggard”. PMLA, Vol. 133 , No. 1, Jan. 2018, pp. 205-20. 205 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Noel Streatfeild | In an adult novel entitled I Ordered a Table for Six, NS
drew on her ongoing experience as a London air-raid warden during World War Two and an organizer for the Women's Voluntary Service
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Occupation | Lilian Bowes Lyon | In London LBL
nursed the wounded during the First World War, then took up social activism. She was for years the head of the Women's Voluntary Service
. During the Second World War, while keeping... |
Occupation | Amabel Williams-Ellis | |
Occupation | Noel Streatfeild | On the outbreak of the Second World War, NS
joined the Women's Voluntary Service
and worked running a mobile canteen service which delivered food to air-raid shelters in South London (Bermondsey and Deptford). She had... |
Textual Production | Rumer Godden | RG
published at the behest of the Bengal branch of the WVS
a work of contemporary history, Bengal Journey: a story of the part played by women in the province,1939-1945. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Travel | Rumer Godden | After leaving Kashmir RG
stayed for nine months in Calcutta with her sister Jon, and toured Bengal in order to write a book about the war-work there of the WVS
. Chisholm, Anne. Rumer Godden, A Storyteller’s Life. Pan Books, 1999. 183-4 Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan, 1987. 242 |
Violence | Storm Jameson | SJ
's youngest sister, Dorothy Pateman
, was killed by a German bomb that hit the People's Pantry at Reading, where Pateman had been working with the Women's Voluntary Service
(WVS
). Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970. 540, 620 |
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