The individual autobiographies and biographies from which extracts were taken will be found under Acknowledgements and are not listed again in this section. Place of publication is London unless otherwise stated.
Adam, Ruth. A Woman’s Place: 1910–75, Chatto and Windus, 1975 and (Persephone Book No. 20) Persephone Books Ltd, 2000
Bagnold, Enid. A Diary Without Dates, William Heinemann Ltd., 1933
–––––. The Happy Foreigner, Virago, 1987
Beauman, Nicola. A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914–39, Virago Press Limited, 1983 and (Persephone Book No. 78) Persephone Books Ltd., 2008
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Borden, Mary. The Forbidden Zone, Heinemann, 1929
–––––. Sarah Gay, Heinemann, 1931
–––––. Journey Down A Blind Alley, Heinemann, 1946
Bowser, Thelka. The Story of British VAD Work in the Great War, Melrose c. 1917 and Imperial War Museum (No. 4 in Women in Wartime series), 2003
Brittain, Vera M. Verses of a VAD. Erskine Macdonald, 1918, and Imperial War Museum, Arts and Literature Series Number 8, 1995
–––––. Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900–1925, Gollancz, 1933
–––––. Vera Brittain’s War Diary 1913–1917. Edited by Alan Bishop, Gollancz, 1981
–––––. A Life by Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge, Chatto & Windus, 1995
–––––. Letters from a Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends. Edited by Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge, Little Brown and Co., 1998
Cadogan, Mary and Craig, Patricia. Women and Children First: The Fiction of Two World Wars, Gollancz, 1978
Cahill, Audrey Fawcett. (Editor) Between the Lines: Letters and Diaries from Elsie Inglis’s Russian Unit, The Pentland Press Ltd, Durham, 1999
Cardinal, Agnes, Goldman, Dorothy, and Hattaway, Judith (Editors). Women’s Writing on the First World War, Oxford University Press, 1999
Carlyon, L.A. Gallipoli, Doubleday, 2002
Cecil, Hugh and Liddle, Peter H. (Editors). Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced, Leo Cooper, Pen and Sword Books Ltd., 1996
Condell, Diane and Liddiard, Jean. Working for Victory? Images of Women in the First World War 1914–18, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987
Corbett, Elsie. With the Red Cross in Serbia, Cheney, 1960
Cox, Sydney, MBE. The Red Cross Launch Wessex on the River Tigris – 1916: Being the Diary of Sydney Cox MBE, with notes and explanations, Natula Publications, Christchurch, Dorset, 2002
Creswick, Paul, G. Stanley Pond and P.H. Ashton. Kent’s Care for the Wounded, Hodder and Stoughton, 1915
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Cröy, Princess Marie de. War Memories, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1932
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914–1915 [K.E. Luard], Diggory Press, 2007
Farmborough, Florence. Nurse at the Russian Front: A Diary 1914–1918, Constable, 1974
Gilbert, Martin. First World War, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994
Grayzel, Susan R. Women and the First World War (Seminar Studies in History), Longman, 2002
Hay, Ian. One Hundred Years of Army Nursing: The Story of the British Army Nursing Services from the time of Florence Nightingale to the present day, Cassell and Company Limited, 1953
Hamilton, Cecily. Senlis, W. Collins Sons and Co., Ltd., 1917
–––––. Life Errant, Dent 1935
–––––. William – an Englishman, Skeffington and Son, 1919 and Persephone Books Ltd., 1999 (Persephone Books No. 1)
Harmer, Michael. The Forgotten Hospital [The Anglo-Russian Hospital, Petrograd], Chichester Press Limited in association with Springwood Books, 1982
Harris, Ruth Elwin. Billie: The Nevill Letters 1914–1916, Julia MacRae Books, 1991
Krippner, Monica. The Quality of Mercy: Women in Serbia 1915–18, David and Charles, Newton Abbot, Devon, 1980
Lawrence, Margot. Shadow of Swords: A Biography of Elsie Inglis, Michael Joseph, 1971
Lee, Janet. War Girls: The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in the First World War, Manchester University Press, 2005
Leneman, Leah. In the Service of Life: The Story of Elsie Inglis and the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, Mercat Press, Edinburgh, 1994
–––––. Elsie Inglis: Founder of battlefield hospitals run entirely by women, NMS Publishing Limited, Edinburgh, 1998
–––––. Medical women at war, 1914–1918 (article in Medical History, 38, 1994)
Macdonald, Lyn. The Roses of No Man’s Land, Michael Joseph, Ltd., 1980 and Penguin Books, 1993
McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880–1930, Scutari Press, 1992
McLaren, Barbara. Women of the War, Hodder and Stoughton, 1917
McLaren, Mrs Eva Shaw. The History of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, Hodder and Stoughton, 1919
Macnaughtan, Sarah. A Woman’s Diary of the War, T. Nelson & Sons, 1915
McPhail, Helen. The Long Silence: Civilian Life under the German Occupation of Northern France, 1914–1918, Tauris, 1999
Marlow, Joyce (Editor). The Virago Book of Women and the Great War, Virago Press, 1998
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Mitchell, David. Women on the Warpath: The Story of the Women of the First World War, Cape, 1966
Nicholson, Virginia. Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War, Viking (Penguin Group), 2007
Oldfield, Sybil. Doers of the Word: A Biographical Dictionary of British Women Humanitarians active between 1900–1950, Continuum, 2001 and Oldfield paperback edition 2006
Oliver, Dame Beryl, GBE., RRC. The British Red Cross in Action, Faber and Faber Ltd., 1966
Ouditt, Sharon. Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War, Routledge, 1994
Plumridge, Lt. Colonel John H., OBE., RAMC. Hospital Ships and Ambulance Trains, Seeley, Service and Co., Ltd., 1975
Popham, Hugh. The FANY in Peace and War: The Story of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry 1907–2003, New and Revised Edition, Leo Cooper (Pen and Sword Books), 2003
Potter, Jane. Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women’s Literary Responses to the Great War 1914–1918, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2005
Rathbone, Irene. We That Were Young, Chatto and Windus, 1932 and Virago Press, 1988
Reilly, Catherine. Scars Upon my Heart: Women’s Poetry and Verse of the First World War, Virago, 1981
Ross, Ishobel. Little Grey Partridge: First World War Diary of Ishobel Ross who served with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals unit in Serbia. Introduced by Jess Dixon, Aberdeen University Press, 1988
Sandes, Flora. An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army, Hodder and Stoughton, 1916
–––––. The Lovely Sergeant. A Biography by Alan Burgess, Heinemann, 1963
Smith, Angela. Women’s Writing of the First World War: An Anthology, Manchester University Press, 2000
Stebbing, E.P. At the Serbian Front in Macedonia, John Lane, 1917
Stuart, Denis. Dear Duchess: Millicent Duchess of Sutherland 1867–1955, Gollancz, 1982
Summers, Anne. Angels and Civilians: British Women as Military Nurses 1854–1914, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1988
Thurstan, Violetta. The People who Run: Being the Tragedy of the Refugees in Russia, Putnam’s, 1916
–––––. Hounds of War Unleashed: A Nurse’s Account of her Life on the Eastern Front during the 1914–18 War, United Writers, Cornwall, 1978
–––––. A Celebration by Muriel Somerfield and Ann Bellingham, Jamieson Library, Newmill, Penzance, Cornwall, 1993
Wenzel, Marian and John Cornish (Compilers). Auntie Mabel’s War [Mabel Jeffery]. An account of her part in the hostilities of 1914–18, Allen Lane, 1980
Whitehead, Ian R. Doctors in the Great War, Leo Cooper, 1999
Wilson, Francesca. In the Margins of Chaos: Recollections of Relief Work in and between Three Wars, Murray 1944