RM
began six months as a VAD
at a military convalescent hospital at Mount Blow, near Great Shelford; she found it very stressful.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray.
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Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins.
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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...
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...