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Employer | Monica Dickens | Quite early in 1940 (after a spell as a writer and another collecting scrap iron for armaments) MD
joined the Red Cross
as a VAD (that is, a Voluntary Aid Detachment
volunteer nurse), then became... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Enid Bagnold | EB
published her first book, A Diary Without Dates, an account of her work as a VAD
at the Royal Herbert Hospital
—a job from which she was dismissed on the book's publication. The... |
Occupation | Joanna Cannan | |
Occupation | May Cannan | |
Occupation | Agatha Christie | |
Occupation | E. M. Delafield | Edmée de la Pasture
(later EMD
) worked for the Exeter Voluntary Aid Hospital in Devon as a VAD
worker, earning her first salary, at one pound a week. Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann, 1988. 32 |
Occupation | Susan Tweedsmuir | During the First World War Susan Buchan served as a VAD
and ran a day nursery in a poor area of London. After the war, living near Oxford, she founded a branch of the then... |
Occupation | Josephine Tey | While she was a student of physical education during the First World War, Elizabeth MacKintosh worked during vacations as a VAD
at a convalescent home in Inverness (probably at |
Occupation | Freya Stark | |
Occupation | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | She was the liaison between the ministry and the Women's Land Army
, Women's Legion
, Voluntary Aid Detachment
and others. In her practice as well as in memoranda to Lord Milner
, the Secretary... |
Occupation | Rose Macaulay | |
Occupation | Sarah Macnaughtan | SM
was in Canada in August 1914 when the first World War was declared. She came back to England to sign on as a war nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment
or VADs. She received... |
Occupation | Enid Bagnold | |
Occupation | Carola Oman | As a VAD—that is, a volunteer nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment
—CO
was stationed close to the lines in France. Here she worked for the British Red Cross
until after the war ended. “Obituary: Miss Carola Oman”. Times, 12 June 1978, p. 16. 16 |
Occupation | Vera Brittain | VB
left Somerville College
at the end of her first academic year to work as a VAD
. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995. 81 |
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