War Office

ER was among the chief administrators of the Liverpool branch of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Family Association (SSFA), the War Office department distributing allowances to the families of enlisted men.

Aside from all this, Richardson found it difficult to write Dimple Hill because of her illness and breakdown she had suffered from. The summer before the collection was published, a young man renting the Odles'...

ES was sent to Holloway in London for two weeks for breaking government-office windows in a suffrage demonstration: It pleases me still to remember that the War Office fell to my pacifist hand.

As the Great War rolled on ES found herself more and more of a pacifist. During her very few holidays from writing and from trying to keep the suffrage cause alive, she took jobs...

RS 's husband had a nine-year-old daughter, Julia , from a previous marriage. He had been working for the railways in India, but was often unemployed until the First World War, when he began work...

A group including Davis was eventually sent to the Barrack Hospital at Scutari. There, however, they were given no work to do beyond mending and sorting linen. Davis describes her impatience at the lack...