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Women's Voluntary Service
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Textual Production | Rumer Godden | |
Travel | Rumer Godden | |
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. 540, 620 |
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
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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... |
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, pp. 205-20. 205 |
Occupation | Amabel Williams-Ellis |
Timeline
1938: Lady Reading founded the Women's Voluntary...
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1938
Lady Reading
founded the Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence
(WVS). At the onset of World War Two, the WVS had 500,000 volunteers.
31 August 1939: The British Government issued an evacuation...
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31 August 1939
The British Government
issued an evacuation notice to be carried out within twenty-four hours; within three days, in fact, a million and a half children, pregnant women, and the blind were moved from their urban...
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