Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994.
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Women's Royal Navy Service
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Ethel Wilson | Love and Salt Water, using the romance formula of a journey through misfortune and misunderstanding to re-integration within a family and community, recounts Ellen Cuppy's experiences travelling to Europe, serving as a WREN |
| Characters | Barbara Pym | This book concerns itself with failure, with the petty, parochial life of the Church, and with the relation of female desire and male homosexuality. The heroine, Wilmet Forsyth, serves, like her creator, with the WRNS |
| Education | Elizabeth Jane Howard | In autumn 1940 EJH
joined a student repertory company at Bideford in Devon, run by Eileen Thorndike
(sister of Sybil). The high point for EJH
was playing the lead in Clemence Dane
's play... |
| Employer | Pam Gems | Having left school in the earlier years of the Second World War and already worked at various jobs including one in an aircraft factory, Pam Price (later PG)
served in the Women's Royal Navy Service |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Pat Barker | PB
was a war baby, conceived and born outside wedlock. Only when her mother, Moyra, was dying in 2000 did Barker learn what little there was to know about her conception. This event had ended... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | J. K. Rowling | Joanne Rowling's mother, born Anne Volant
, had signed up as a Wren (with the Women's Royal Navy Service
) before she met her future husband. When both her daughters were at secondary school she... |
| Friends, Associates | Ethel Wilson | From 1941 to 1943, the Wilsons received into their home sixteen-year-old Audrey Butler
, an evacuee from England. They were generous with both their familial warmth and finances. Audrey shared the Wilsons' love of Shakespeare |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Jane Howard | EJH
got her first real job acting at Stratford at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. She acted in three plays, making insufficient money to eat properly, and could not go on stage for her third... |
| Occupation | Berta Ruck | She said she got this assignment by accident: Someone had blundered and confused her with her cousin Barnard Darwin
, who was also a novelist. She was relieved to find, when she was somewhere in... |
| Occupation | Barbara Pym | BP
enlisted in the Women's Royal Navy Service
(WRNS); in July she began her work at the Nore Training Depot in Rochester, Kent. Pym, Barbara. A Very Private Eye. Editors Holt, Hazel and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984. 142 |
| Occupation | Barbara Pym | Allied troops being now well established in Italy, BP
volunteered to work in Naples, where she continued as a censor with the Women's Royal Navy Service
(WRNS
). Pym, Barbara. A Very Private Eye. Editors Holt, Hazel and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984. 174 Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994. 16 |
Timeline
November 1917: Katharine Furse, having resigned as head...
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November 1917
Katharine Furse
, having resigned as head of the Voluntary Aid Detachment
, established and became first head of the Women's Royal Navy Service
(WRNS).
Summers, Anne. Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses 1854-1914. Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1988.
286
British Book News. British Council.
(1960): 857
Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. Croom Helm, 1977.
92
Ouditt, Sharon. Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War. Routledge, 1994.
16, 220
Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.
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van der Vat, Dan. “Commandant Vonla McBride”. The Guardian, 14 Aug. 2003, p. 27.
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By 1943: 443,000 women staffed the Auxiliary Territorial...
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By 1943
443,000 women staffed the Auxiliary Territorial Service(ATS)
, the Women's Auxiliary Air Force(WAAF)
, and the Women's Royal Navy Service(WRNS)
.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
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1947: The WRNS (Women's Royal Navy Service or Wrens)...
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1947
The WRNS
(Women's Royal Navy Service or Wrens) was made a permanent force, though it was cut back to its initial size of about 3,000 members.
van der Vat, Dan. “Commandant Vonla McBride”. The Guardian, 14 Aug. 2003, p. 27.
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5 July 2007: Odile Crick, British-born artist who becme...
Building item
5 July 2007
Odile Crick
, British-born artist who becme famous for her sketch of the structure of DNA, died at her home in California.
“Odile Crick”. The Independent: Obituaries, 20 July 2007.
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