The following notes give only principal sources consulted and are firmly aimed at the general reader rather than the academic. For all publication details please refer to the Select Bibliography on page 480.
At the risk of disappointing lovers of statistics, I have not credited the use of every figure throughout the book; statistical research on the Second World War is readily available. My principal statistical references derive from the following books:
Calder, Angus, The People’s War: Britain 1939–1945.
Halsey, A. H., Trends in British Society since 1900: A Guide to the Changing Social Structure of Britain.
Howlett, Peter, Fighting with Figures: A Statistical Digest of the Second World War.
Kynaston, David, Austerity Britain 1945–51.
Longmate, Norman, How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life during the Second World War.
Noakes, Lucy, Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex 1907–1948.
Summerfield, Penny, Women Workers in the Second World War: Production and Patriarchy in Conflict.
Winter, J. M., ‘The Demographic Consequences of the War’, in H. L. Smith, ed., War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War.
Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Ina, Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls and Consumption, 1939–1955.
Certain sources recur throughout the book; in such cases I have annotated them, for the sake of brevity, with abbreviations as follows:
Notes
Prelude
pages 1–2. ‘a very ordinary girl …’: PW/GG; PW/CAW; PW/CCA.
pages 2–3. ‘For skinny Jean McFadyen …’: JP/A.
page 3. ‘Patience Chadwyck-Healey …’: PC-H/A.
pages 4–5. ‘Kay Mellis, now in her late eighties …’: KW/A.
page 5. ‘Margaret Herbertson, a diplomat’s daughter …’: Mar.P/A.
pages 5–6. ‘Phyllis (‘Pip’) Beck …’: PB/PP; PB/WAAF.
page 6. ‘Twenty-five year-old Margery Berney …’: MB/NGS.
page 6. ‘Mary Cornish shares a flat …’: author interviews with Elizabeth Paterson (Mary Cornish’s niece), 2009, and Maggie Paterson (niece-in-law), 2009.
pages 6–7. ‘Thelma Ryder, at seventeen …’: TR/A.
page 7. ‘Clara Milburn is fifty-five …’: CM/MM.
page 7. ‘Helen Vlasto is spending …’: HL/CI; author correspondence with Christopher Long (son of Helen Long née Vlasto).
pages 7–8. ‘Monica Littleboy, daughter of a manager …’: MS/MEM.
page 8. ‘Anne Popham, aged twenty-two …’: AP/A.
page 8. ‘Nella Last has lived …’: NL/NLW
page 8. ‘Mavis Lever, a well-read sixth-former …’: MB/A.
pages 8–9. ‘Helen Forrester’s family …’: HF/L’POOL.
page 9. ‘Madeleine Henrey, the chic French wife …’: MH/LONDON.
Chapter 1: We’re at War
page 10. ‘Joan Wyndham started to keep a diary …’: JW/LL.
page 10. ‘Margaret Perry from Nottingham …’: Margaret Perry’s untitled memoir is held in the collection of working-class autobiographies at Brunel University.
page 11. ‘Mary Hewins from Stratford-upon-Avon …’: Angela Hewins, Mary, after the Queen.
page 11. ‘Debutante Susan Meyrick …: cited in Anne de Courcy, Debs at War: 1939-1945 – How Wartime Changed Their Lives.
page 11. ‘Mary Angove down in the West Country …’: MD/A.
page 11. ‘Flo Mahony, now in her late eighties …’: FM/A.
page 11. ‘get a little extra soap darling …’: MP/A.
page 11. ‘buy up hairpins, Kirby grips …’: cited in Norman Longmate, How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life during the Second World War.
page 11. ‘Dolly Scannell’s baby …’: Dorothy Scannell, Dolly’s War.
page 11. ‘Kathleen Hale’s husband …’: Kathleen Hale, A Slender Reputation.
page 11. ‘Virginia Graham ordered …’: Janie Hampton, ed., Joyce and Ginnie: The Letters of Joyce Grenfell and Virginia Graham.
pages 11–12. ‘Edna Hughes from Liverpool …’: cited in Colin and Eileen Townsend, War Wives: A Second World War Anthology.
page 12. ‘Some are learning to be cooks …’: Woman’s Own, 9 September 1939.
page 12. ‘a popular perception of the ATS …’: see Lucy Noakes, Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex 1907–1948.
page 13. ‘Patience admits …’: PC-H/A.
page 13. ‘Twenty-four-year-old Verily Bruce …’: VA/A; VA/SPAM.
pages 13–15. ‘Frances Faviell, thirty-seven …’: FF/CHELSEA.
page 15. ‘Helen Forrester was also aware …’: HF/L’POOL.
page 16. ‘Joan Wyndham was busy …’: JW/LL.
page 16. ‘Another woman recollected …’: cited in Norman Longmate, ed., The Home Front: An Anthology of Personal Experience 1938–1945.
pages 17–18. ‘Helen Vlasto, on holiday with her family …’: HL/CI.
page 17. ‘Nature is providing …’: cited in Longmate, ed., The Home Front.
page 18. ‘Sixteen-year-old Pip Beck …’: PB/PP.
page 18. ‘Phyllis Noble was “very scared” …’: PW/CCA.
page 18. ‘I get emotional remembering it …’: MD/A.
page 18. ‘one sixteen-year-old …’: cited in Longmate, ed., The Home Front.
page 18. ‘Another – in the middle …’: LK/MD.
pages 18–19. ‘Marguerite Eave had just moved …’: MP/A.
page 19. ‘Frances Faviell, who …’: FF/CHELSEA.
pages 19–20. ‘In Streatham, Pat Bawland …’: author interview with Pat Evans, née Bawland, 2008.
pages 20–21. ‘forty-nine-year-old housewife Nella Last …’: NL/NLW.
page 21. ‘Patience Chadwyck-Healey …’: PC-H/A.
pages 21–2. ‘Frances Faviell watched carloads …’: FF/CHELSEA.
page 22. ‘fourteen-year-old Nina Mabey …’: NB/TIME.
pages 22–3. ‘the Forrester family were visited …’: HF/L’POOL.
page 23. ‘Mrs Lilian Roberts …’: see www.wartimememories.co.uk.
pages 23–4. ‘The diarist Frances Partridge …’: FP/PW.
pages 24–5. ‘The Women’s Voluntary Service …’: see Charles Graves, Women in Green: The Story of the W.V.S.; see also James Hinton, Women, Social Leadership and the Second World War: Continuities of Class.
page 25. ‘Rene Smith, a respectable newlywed …’: cited in Townsend and Townsend, War Wives.
page 25. ‘The Tyson family …’: see Ben Wicks, No Time to Wave Goodbye.
page 26. ‘Nina Mabey was primarily dismayed …’: NB/TIME.
page 26. ‘Despite much kindness …’: HF/L’POOL.
page 26. ‘Our familiar world …’: PW/CAW.
pages 26–8. ‘Nella Last recorded …’: NL/NLW.
page 28. ‘A woman spotted …’: MP-D/NY.
page 28. ‘One young woman literally bumped …’: cited in Townsend and Townsend, War Wives.
page 28. ‘the housewife Clara Milburn …’: CM/MM.
pages 28–9. ‘the writer and journalist Mollie Panter-Downes …’: MP-D/NY.
page 29. ‘This war really isn’t at all bad …’: JW/LL.
page 29. ‘Clara Milburn noted …’: CM/MM.
page 30. ‘a speech broadcast on the wireless …’: cited in introduction to Joyce Grenfell: The Time of My Life, Entertaining the Troops – Her Wartime Journals, ed. James Roose-Evans.
pages 30–31. ‘In a St Albans store …’: MO.
page 31. ‘there were still croissants …’: JW/LL.
page 31. ‘music teacher Mary Cornish …’: author interviews with Elizabeth Paterson (Mary Cornish’s niece), 2009, and Maggie Paterson (niece-in-law), 2009.
pages 31–2. ‘Vera Welch’s career …’: author interview with Dame Vera Lynn, 2009.
page 32. ‘Marguerite Eave found herself …’: MP/A.
pages 32–6. ‘Helen Forrester was one …’: HF/L’POOL.
page 35. ‘For Frances Faviell in Chelsea …’: FF/CHELSEA.
page 36. ‘trainee beautician Monica Littleboy …’: MS/MEM.
pages 36–7. ‘the story of Anne Popham …’: AP/A.
page 37. ‘Young Pip Beck …’: PB/PP.
page 37. ‘Frances Campbell-Preston …’: Frances Campbell-Preston, The Rich Spoils of Time.
page 38. ‘For fifteen year-old Pat Bawland …’: author interview with Pat Evans, née Bawland, 2008.
page 38. ‘Kay Mellis in Edinburgh …’: KW/A.
pages 38–9. ‘the King spoke to the nation …’: cited in FF/CHELSEA.
Chapter 2: All Our Prayers
page 40. ‘Madeleine Henrey felt …’: MH/FARM.
pages 40–42 ‘Lorna Bradey, aged twenty-four …’: LK/MD.
pages 43–5. ‘Clara Milburn was exasperated …’: CM/MM.
pages 44–5. ‘the novelist Barbara Pym …’: Barbara Pym, A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Letters and Diaries.
pages 45–6. ‘Frances Faviell went …’: FF/CHELSEA.
pages 46–7. ‘Joan Wyndham, aged seventeen …’: JW/LL.
page 48. ‘Everyone is getting married …’: cited in Sandra Koa Wing, ed., Our Longest Days: A People’s History of the Second World War.
page 48. ‘Randolph Churchill …’: in Eric Taylor, Forces Sweethearts: Service Romances in World War II.
page 48. ‘Margery Berney was another …’: MB/NGS
page 49. ‘Eileen Hunt made her way …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A4056914.
page 49. ‘Women want to be partners …’: cited in Jane Waller and Michael Vaughan-Rees, Women in Wartime: The Role of Women’s Magazines 1939–45.
page 49. ‘Miss E. de Langlois … Mrs Gilroy … Mrs Hope …’: all in Daily Sketch, May 1940.
page 50. ‘WAR WORKERS’ SUNDAY DASH …’: Daily Sketch, 27 May 1940.
page 50. ‘Mass Observation took …’: in Dorothy Sheridan, ed., Wartime Women: An Anthology of Women’s Wartime Writing for Mass Observation 1937–45.
page 50. ‘A BLACK DAY …’: in ibid.
pages 50–51. ‘So cruel …’: in ibid.
pages 51–3. ‘The writer Naomi Mitchison …’: NM/NOTES.
pages 52–3. ‘Frances Partridge, also …’: FP/PW.
pages 53–5. ‘On 20 May QA Lorna Bradey …’: LK/MD.
page 55. ‘Mrs Milburn heard …’: CM/MM.
page 55. ‘For the 224,585 British troops …’: figure from Robert Goralski, World War II Almanac 1931–1945: A Political and Military Record.
page 56. ‘Peggy Priestman …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A4051018.
page 56. ‘VAD Lucilla Andrews …’: Lucilla Andrews, No Time for Romance.
page 56. ‘Kathy Kay’s platoon …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A2278389.
pages 56–7. ‘Mary Angove was another … ’: MD/A.
page 57. ‘WAAF Joan Davis …’: BBC/PW, article, ID: A4052413.
pages 57–9. ‘In Villers-sur-Mer …’: MH/FARM.
pages 59–60. ‘But the ordeal …’: LK/MD.
pages 60–61: ‘Clara Milburn heard … ’: CM/MM.
page 61. ‘Frances Campbell-Preston …’: Campbell-Preston, The Rich Spoils of Time.
page 61. ‘News was even slower …’: BC/YO.
page 61. ‘Today I have just heard …’: CM/MM.
page 62. ‘Is it any good fighting …’: Mass Observation diarist Muriel Green, in Sheridan, ed., Wartime Women.
page 62. ‘an office worker …’: cited in Longmate, How We Lived Then.
page 62. ‘Nella Last was listening …’: NL/NLW.
page 62. ‘In Essex …’: cited in Joshua Levine, ed., Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain.
page 62. ‘Naomi Mitchison had given …’: NM/NOTES.
page 63. ‘Do not believe rumours …’: cited in FF/CHELSEA.
page 63. ‘the publicity picture …’: Daily Sketch, 19 June 1940.
pages 63–4. ‘What General Weygand …’: see F. W. Heath, ed., A Churchill Anthology – Selections from the Writings and Speeches of Sir Winston Churchill.
page 64. ‘When people have decried [him] …’: Joan Seaman, cited in Levine, Forgotten Voices.
page 64. ‘We would really …’: Joan Varley, cited in ibid.
page 64. ‘Every man and woman …’: The Times, 19 June 1940.
pages 64–8. ‘WAAF Aileen Morris …’: AC/ENEMY.
Chapter 3: Wreckage
pages 69–70. ‘Helen Forrester was …’: HF/L’POOL.
pages 70–72. ‘Sonia Wilcox …’: information supplied by Jonathan Keates.
page 72. ‘Shirley Hook’s wedding plans …’: MO.
pages 72–5. ‘Verily Bruce’s otherwise …’: VA/A; VA/SPAM.
pages 75–7. ‘Helen Forrester and Harry O’Dwyer …’: HF/L’POOL.
pages 77–81. ‘The story of Mary Cornish …’: Elspeth Huxley, Atlantic Ordeal; Tom Nagorski, Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of the U-boat attack on the SS City of Benares – One of the Great Lost Stories of WWII; Janet Menzies, Children of the Doomed Voyage; Mary Cornish’s private papers in the possession of Maggie Paterson; author interviews with Maggie Paterson and Elizabeth Paterson.
pages 81–2. ‘Hermann Göring, Commander-in-Chief …’: cited in John Keegan, The Second World War.
page 82. ‘Joan Tagg, aged fifteen …’: JT/A.
page 82. ‘In London, Sheila Hails …’: SH-J/A.
page 82. ‘Virginia Woolf described …’: The Diaries of Virginia Woolf, vol. 5, ed. Anne Olivier Bell, entry dated Friday 16 August 1940.
pages 82–3. ‘Frances Faviell and her fiancé …’: FF/CHELSEA.
pages 83–4. ‘Virginia Woolf had written an essay …’: Virginia Woolf, ‘Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid’, from The Death of the Moth and Other Essays.
page 85. ‘Charles Graves, the historian …’: Graves, Women in Green.
page 85. ‘Tea became the common healer …’: Hilde Marchant, Women and Children Last – A Woman Reporter’s Account of the Battle of Britain.
page 85. ‘Yorkshire farmer’s wife …’: see Eric Taylor, Heroines of World War II.
page 86. ‘Albert Powell from Lewisham …’: Margaret Powell, Climbing the Stairs.
pages 86–7. ‘Phyllis Noble decided …’: PW/CAW, PW/CCA.
page 87. ‘Magnificently terrifying …’: MH/LONDON.
page 87. ‘A lethal fairyland …’: Agnes Fish, Recollections of Farnsworth and Kearsley 1900–1945.
page 87. ‘the female shelterers went prepared …’: see Doris Barry in Mavis Nicholson, What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?Women in World War II.
page 87. ‘Woman’s Own readers …’: cited in Waller and Vaughan-Rees, Women in Wartime.
pages 87–8. ‘Two young Bermondsey women …’: Ruth Durrant, contributor to The Wartime Memories Project website www.wartimememories.co.uk/women.html.
page 88. ‘The indefatigable Mass Observers …’: cited in Tom Harrisson, Living through the Blitz.
page 88. ‘Air-raid warden Barbara Nixon …’: Barbara Nixon, Raiders Overhead: A Diary of the London Blitz.
page 88. ‘One woman nightly drank …’: cited FF/CHELSEA.
page 88. ‘Flo Mahony’s brand …’: FM/A.
page 88. ‘I’m ill …’ [and other quotations]: cited by Harrisson, Living through the Blitz.
page 88. ‘63,000 of them …’: statistics cited in Harold L. Smith, ‘The Effects of War on the Status of Women’, in H. L. Smith, ed., War and Social Change – British Society in the Second World War.
pages 88–9. ‘One woman had to be taken …’: Marchant, Women and Children Last.
page 89. ‘The writer Fiona MacCarthy …’: Fiona MacCarthy, Last Curtsey – The End of the Debutantes.
pages 89–90. ‘One of those who moved in …’: Diana Cooper, Trumpets from the Steep.
page 90. ‘Restaurants and dancing …’: VA/SPAM.
page 90. ‘The best swing band …’: JW/LL.
pages 90–91. ‘While London blazed, Mary Cornish …’: Mary Cornish’s private papers in the possession of Maggie Paterson; author interviews with Maggie Paterson and Elizabeth Paterson.
pages 91–3. ‘In 1939 Frances Faviell …’: FF/CHELSEA.
pages 93–4. ‘Barbara Nixon encountered … ’: Barbara Nixon, Raiders Overhead.
page 94. ‘For Edith …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A2499519.
page 94. ‘Dianna Dobinson’s flat …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A1127549.
page 94. ‘Seventeen-year-old Londoner …’: author interview with Cora Williams, née Styles, 2008.
page 94. ‘Elizabeth Bowen emerged …’: from Elizabeth Bowen, ‘London, 1940’, in Collected Impressions.
pages 95–6. ‘Hilde Marchant, a journalist …’: Marchant, Women and Children Last.
page 96. ‘A woman working as a driver …’: cited in Sheridan, ed., Wartime-Women.
page 96: ‘Sheila Hails was coming home …’: SH-J/A.
pages 96–7. ‘A nurse who survived …’: cited by Taylor, Heroines of World War II.
page 97. ‘Mass Observation interviewed …’: cited in Harrisson, Living though the Blitz.
page 97. ‘As Barbara Cartland said …’: BC/YO.
pages 98–9. ‘twenty-four-year-old Anne Popham …’: AP/PP.
page 99. ‘We all had miserable days …’: KW/A.
page 99. ‘We were much more accepting …’: JT/A.
page 99. ‘You just go on with your life …’: TR/A.
page 99. ‘You just grin and bear it …’: author interview with Vera Roberts, 2008.
page 100. ‘In Coventry and Warwickshire …’: Taylor, Heroines of World War II.
pages 100–101. ‘Joan Kelsall still lives …’: JK/A.
page 101. ‘Alma Merritt and her family …’: letter from Mrs Merritt to the author.
page 101. ‘Joyce Hoffman’s family …’: letter from Mrs Hoffman to the author.
pages 101–2. ‘The Wall family …’: letter from Phillip Wall to the author.
page 102. ‘Clara Milburn arose …’: CM/MM.
page 102. ‘like old sheets …’: in Angela Hewins, Mary, after the Queen.
page 102. ‘I coped by getting angry …’: JK/A.
page 102. ‘Cora Styles was sixteen …’: CW/A.
page 102. ‘Marguerite Patten reserves …’: MP/A.
pages 102–3. ‘Mrs Milburn went out …’: CM/MM.
pages 103–4. ‘Joan Wyndham had fallen …’: JW/LB.
page 104. ‘Mary Wesley’s wartime …’: see Patrick Marnham, Wild Mary: The Life of Mary Wesley.
page 104. ‘Phyllis Noble noticed …’: PW/CAW.
pages 104–5. ‘In the London underground …’: Harrisson, Living though the Blitz.
page 105. ‘I had seen a couple …’: FF/CHELSEA.
Chapter 4: ‘Ready to Win the War’
pages 106–7. ‘In the summer of 1941 …’: author interview with Kaye Bastin, née Emery, 2008.
page 108. ‘Pip Beck joined the ARP …’: PB/PP.
page 109. ‘Mass Observation offered the case-history …’: Harrisson, Living through the Blitz.
page 109. ‘Sometimes it is the small …’: HF/L’POOL.
page 109. ‘Barbara Cartland put in a plea … ’: BC/YO.
pages 109–10. ‘Nella Last reached …’: NL/NLW.
pages 110–11. ‘Frances Faviell …’: FF/CHELSEA; interview with Mrs Pamela Hanbury.
page 111. ‘Nella Last’s reflections …’: NL/NLW.
page 113. ‘We all feel very strongly …’: Daily Sketch, 21 March 1941.
page 113. ‘The Labour Party conference …’: The Times, 15 April 1941.
page 113. ‘The army had a sleazy reputation …’: see Noakes, Women in the British Army.
page 114. ‘In the end …’: Mary Grieve, Millions Made My Story.
page 115. ‘Edith Summerskill …’: from ‘Conscription and Women’, in The Fortnightly, March 1942.
page 115. ‘Most of us felt …’: FF/CHELSEA.
page 115. ‘For a housewife …’: cited in Penny Summerfield, Women Workers in the Second World War: Production and Patriarchy in Conflict.
page 115. ‘Monica Littleboy’s experience …’: MS/MEM.
pages 115–16. ‘Mrs M. in the Midlands …’: cited in Townsend and Townsend, War Wives.
page 116. ‘Young women like Phyllis Noble …’: PW/CAW; PW/CAA.
pages 117–20. ‘One of these young women …’: DB/GIRLS.
pages 120–23. ‘Doris, a sunny-tempered …’: DW/DV.
pages 123–7. ‘Twenty-one-year-old Mavis Lever …’: MB/A; The Bletchley Park War Diaries July 1939–August 1945. See also www.royalnavy.mod.uk/history/battles/.
pages 127–9. ‘After her narrow escape …’: LK/MD.
pages 130–33. ‘For her part …’: DW/DV.
page 131: ‘A frequent wartime catastrophe …’; Tottenham Court Road: BBC/PW, article ID: A2429561; Sheffield: see Edie Rutherford in Koa Wing, ed., Our Longest Days; Truro: Charmian Martin’s war memories at www.thisiscornwall.co.uk; Cairo: see Grenfell, The Time of My Life.
page 131: ‘No man wants to come home …’: see Waller and Vaughan-Rees, Women in Wartime.
page 132. ‘When Doffy Brewer left home …’: DB/GIRLS.
pages 132–3. ‘Barbara Cartland …’: BC/YO.
page 133. ‘One ATS officer …’: cited in de Courcy, Debs at War.
page 133. ‘Jenny Nicholson, the author …’: Jenny Nicholson, Kiss the Girls Goodbye.
page 134. ‘every troop locker …’: see John Costello, Love, Sex and War 1939–1945.
page 134. ‘thereby ruining …’: MP-D/NY.
page 135. ‘clothes-conscious Madeleine Henrey …’: MH/LONDON.
page 135. ‘It’s getting easy …’: NL/NLW.
pages 135–6. ‘Phyllis Noble’s job …’: PW/CAW.
pages 136–8. ‘For Helen Forrester …’: HF/LIME.
page 138. ‘As one woman said …’: cited in Longmate, How We Lived Then.
pages 138–9. ‘Newlywed Kaye Bastin …’: author interview with Kaye Bastin, née Emery, 2008.
page 139. ‘There was Mrs Louis …’: cited in May Rainer, Emma’s Daughter; this unpublished memoir is held in the collection of working-class autobiographies at Brunel University.
pages 139–40. ‘There was Elizabeth Jane Howard …’: EJH/A; EJH/S.
page 140. ‘Margaret Perry …’: Margaret Perry’s untitled memoir is held in the collection of working-class autobiographies at Brunel University.
pages 140–41. ‘Barbara Cartland worked …’: BC/YO.
Chapter 5: ‘Your Country Welcomes Your Services’
pages 142–3. ‘At Ham Spray House …’: FP/PW.
page 144. ‘Christian Oldham, the convent-educated …’: CL/A; CL/HAT.
page 145. ‘An ATS recruit recalled …’: Sylvia Mundahl Harris, The View from the Cookhouse Floor.
page 145. ‘The knickers were long-legged …’: FM/A; JT/A.
page 145. ‘Just imagine …’: cited in Vera Lynn with Robin Cross and Jenny de Gex, Unsung Heroines: The Women Who Won the War.
page 146. ‘A dazzling Wren …’: see The Wartime Scrapbook: On the Home Front 1939 to 1945, compiled by Robert Opie.
page 146. ‘Clara Milburn and her husband …’: CM/MM.
page 146. ‘The Daily Mail invited readers …’: cited in Cooper, Trumpets from the Steep.
page 146. ‘Vera Roberts trained …’: author interview with Vera Roberts, 2008.
pages 146–7. ‘she would immediately stride …’: cited in Nicholson, Kiss the Girls Goodbye.
page 147. ‘It still wasn’t …’: see M-O Bulletin on Women in Public Houses, in Sheridan, ed., Wartime Women.
page 147. ‘Those ATS girls …’: cited in Hylton, Their Darkest Hour.
page 147. ‘nothing but a league …’: see Noakes, Women in the British Army.
page 147. ‘officers’ groundsheets …’: examples given in Hylton, Their Darkest Hour.
page 148. ‘In her account …’: Hilary Wayne, Two Odd Soldiers.
page 148. ‘I never had any trouble …’: cited in de Courcy, Debs at War.
page 148. ‘Eileen Rouse came back …’: author interview with Eileen Morgan, née Rouse, 2008.
page 148. ‘For Pat Bawland …’: author interview with Pat Evans, née Bawland, 2008.
page 149. ‘Flo Mahony’s feelings …’: FM/A.
pages 149–52. ‘Twenty-year-old Jean McFadyen …’: JP/A.
pages 152–3 ‘Kay Mellis was another …’: KW/A.
page 153. ‘Another propagandising …’: Vita Sackville-West, The Women’s Land Army.
pages 153–4. ‘Shirley Joseph described …’: Shirley Joseph, If Their Mothers Only Knew: An Unofficial Account of Life in the Women’s Land Army.
page 154. ‘Monica Littleboy held out …’: MS/MEM.
page 154. ‘Mary Fedden chose …’: from Nicholson, ed., What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?
page 155. ‘Patience Chadwyck-Healey would …’: PC-H/A.
pages 155–6. ‘Christian Oldham in the Wrens …’: CL/HAT.
page 156. ‘For Audrey Johnson …’: cited in CL/HAT.
page 157. ‘evacuated from Ilford …’: NB/TIME.
page 157. ‘WAAF Flo Mahony …’: FM/A.
page 158. ‘Mavis Lever was well aware …’: MB/A.
page 158. ‘Patience Chadwyck-Healey couldn’t bear …’: PC-H/A.
page 158. ‘And according to Joan Wyndham …’: JW/LB.
page 158. ‘Ex-debutante Wren …’: de Courcy, Debs at War.
page 158. ‘When Barbara Pym …’: Pym, A Very Private Eye.
page 158. ‘I was used to dear …’: de Courcy, Debs at War.
page 158. ‘One well-educated Wren …’: private information.
pages 159–63. ‘The story of Christian Oldham’s life …’: CL/A; CL/HAT.
pages 163–9. ‘Eighteen-year-old Pip Beck …’: PB/PP; PB/WAAF.
page 167 ‘Not a Cloud in the Sky …’: lyrics taken from version written and composed by Tommie Connor and Eddie Lisbona.
page 170. ‘Frances Partridge’s small corner …’: FP/PW.
pages 170–71. ‘Sheila Hails was born …’: SH-J/A.
pages 171–2. ‘Not all female conscientious objectors …’: see Denis Hayes, Challenge of Conscience.
page 172. ‘the artist Mary Fedden …’: Nicholson, ed., What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?
page 173. ‘Cliff seems …’: NL/NLW.
page 173. ‘Three years today …’: CM/MM.
pages 173–5. ‘Anne Popham’s lover …’: AP/A; AP/PP.
Chapter 6: The Girl That Makes the Thing-ummy Bob
page 176. ‘250,000 20–21-year-olds …’: taken from The Daily Sketch, 1942.
page 176. ‘A convocation of …’: cited in Grieve, Millions Made My Story.
page 177. ‘Rage stirred …’: see Edith Olivier, Night Thoughts of a Country Landlady.
pages 177–8. ‘But in Barrow-in-Furness …’: NL/NLW.
page 178. ‘Vere Hodgson …’: Vere Hodgson, Few Eggs and No Oranges: The Diaries of Vere Hodgson 1940–45.
page 178. ‘one WAAF to put on two stone …’: JT/A.
page 178. ‘a nutritious picnic treat …’: The Good Housekeeping Book of Thrifty War-Time Recipes (approved by the Ministry of Food).
page 178. ‘Woman’s Own gave recipes …’: Woman’s Own, 1943.
page 178. ‘The Daily Express …’: see The Wartime Scrapbook.
pages 178–9. ‘Nella Last was proud …’: NL/NLW.
page 179. ‘the Advice Division …’: newspaper cutting cited in Bette Anderson, We Just Got on with It – British Women in World War II.
page 179. ‘Try cooking cabbage …’: The Wartime Scrapbook.
pages 179–80. ‘In 1942 the home economist …’: MP/A.
pages 180–81. ‘We never went without …’: FM/A.
page 181. ‘Eileen Rouse says …’: author interview with Eileen Morgan, née Rouse, 2008.
pages 181–4. ‘One of these was Zelma Katin …’: Zelma Katin, Clippie: The Autobiography of a War Time Conductress.
page 184. ‘Mrs Milburn marvelled …’: CM/MM.
pages 184–5. ‘the writer Amabel Williams-Ellis …’: Amabel Williams-Ellis, Women in War Factories.
pages 186–7. ‘Until 1942 Thelma Ryder lived …’: TR/A.
page 187. ‘Emily Jones’s face …’: Margaretta Jolly, ed., Dear Laughing Motorbyke: Letters from Women Welders of the Second World War.
pages 188–9. ‘Elsie Whiteman and …’: Sue Bruley, ed., Working for Victory: A Diary of Life in a Second World War Factory.
page 190. ‘Among the Yorkshire welders …’: Jolly, ed., Dear Laughing Motorbyke.
pages 190–91. ‘My initiation …’: cited in Longmate, ed., The Home Front.
page 191. ‘Margaret Perry was another …’: Margaret Perry’s untitled memoir is held in the collection of working-class autobiographies at Brunel University.
page 191. ‘The welders seem not …’: Jolly, ed., Dear Laughing Motorbyke.
page 191. ‘One investigation …’: see Pearl Jephcott, Rising Twenty: Notes on Some Ordinary Girls.
page 192. Making a thing …’: see ‘The Thing-Ummy-Bob’, written by Gordon Thompson and David Heneker.
pages 192–3. ‘In their off-duty …’: Jolly, ed., Dear Laughing Motorbyke.
page 193. ‘Amabel Williams-Ellis’s book …’: Amabel Williams-Ellis, Women in War Factories.
page 194. ‘One day … a gang of us …’: cited in Townsend and Townsend, War Wives.
page 194. ‘a joke started …’: see Costello, Love, Sex and War.
pages 194–5. ‘When the GIs from Steeple Morden …’: see Elfrieda Berthiaume Shukert and Barbara Smith Scibetta, War Brides of World War II.
page 195. ‘As Madeleine Henrey wrote …’: MH/LONDON.
pages 196–7. ‘When African American …’: see Shukert and Scibetta, War Brides.
page 197. ‘Frances Partridge wrote …’: FP/PW.
pages 197–9. ‘Dolly Scannell, a married …’: Scannell, Dolly’s War.
page 199. ‘Margaret Tapster used to dance …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A5827665.
page 199. ‘While American women …’: see Shukert and Scibetta, War Brides.
pages 199–200. ‘[Eddie] told me …’ [also Ruth Patchen story]: see http://uswarbrides.com/bride_stories/index.html.
page 200. ‘Nineteen-year-old Mary Angove …’: MD/A.
pages 200–201. ‘Barbara Cartland would be …’: BC/YO.
pages 201–4. ‘Corporal ‘Mike’ Morris’s …’: AC/ENEMY.
pages 204–8. ‘A startlingly pretty debutante …’: HL/CI.
page 208. ‘Clara Milburn listened …’: CM/MM.
page 208. ‘the London diarist …’: Hodgson, Few Eggs and No Oranges.
pages 208–9. ‘Kathleen Church-Bliss …’: Bruley, ed., Working for Victory.
page 209. Frances Partridge hardly …’: FP/PW.
page 209. ‘Two Sundays ago …’: see A Churchill Anthology.
page 209. ‘Nella Last listened …’: NL/NLW.
page 210. ‘WAAFs like R/T operator …’: PB/WAAF.
page 210. ‘Wren Pat Bawland …’: author interview with Pat Evans, née Bawland, 2008.
page 210. ‘Hearts do break …’: cited in Townsend and Townsend, War Wives.
pages 211–13. ‘Today, Cora Williams …’: CW/A.
page 214. ‘a Blitz survey …’: cited in Harrisson, Living through the Blitz.
pages 214–15. ‘Nella Last and her husband …’: NL/NLW.
page 214. ‘Doffy Brewer still remembers …’: DB/A.
page 214. ‘Doris Scorer’s days off …’: DW/DV.
page 215. ‘Mary Fedden went …’: from Nicholson, ed., What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?
page 215. ‘Barbara Pym was …’: Pym, A Very Private Eye.
page 215. ‘Clara Milburn found …’: CM/MM.
pages 215–16. ‘Susan Woolfit’s war work …’: in Jenny Hartley, ed., Hearts Undefeated – Women’s Writing of the Second World War.
page 216. ‘You lived at that period …’: CW/A.
pages 216–20. ‘Phyllis Noble longed …’: PW/CAW; PW/CCA.
pages 220–23. ‘Joan Wyndham’s war …’: JW/LB.
pages 223–4. ‘Elizabeth Jane Howard …’: EJH/A; EJH/S.
pages 224–5. ‘Meanwhile, Phyllis Noble …’: PW/CAW; PW/CCA.
page 226. ‘Meanwhile, male attitudes …’: : see Costello, Love, Sex and War.
page 226. ‘Ex-WAAF Joan Tagg …’: JT/A.
page 227. ‘one US staff sergeant …’: Costello, Love, Sex and War.
page 227. ‘they often issued a supercharge …’: see MH/LONDON.
page 227. ‘Flo Mahony was a WAAF …’: FM/A.
pages 227–8. ‘I’ve been working in London …’: cited in Nicholson, What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?
page 228. ‘A slice off a cut loaf …’: cited in Townsend and Townsend, War Wives.
page 228. ‘Disturbing clashes …’: examples cited in Waller and Vaughan-Rees, Women in Wartime.
page 229. ‘Jane Howard’s baby …’: EJH/S.
page 229. ‘the correspondence columns …’: in The Times, 1942.
page 229. ‘Mass Observation interviewed …’: cited in Sheridan, ed., Wartime Women.
page 230. ‘It’s one in the eye …’: NM/NOTES.
page 230. ‘On 23 March 1943 …’: NL/NLW.
page 230. ‘it was a fate …’: JT/A.
pages 230–31. ‘One ATS Officer …’: cited in de Courcy, Debs at War.
page 230. ‘Far worse was …’: LK/MD.
page 231. ‘Barbara Cartland stressed …’: BC/YO.
pages 231–2. ‘Seventeen-year-old Vivian Fisher’s …’: cited in Ben Wicks, Welcome Home: True Stories of Soldiers Returning from World War II.
page 232. ‘Another woman whose husband …’: cited in Townsend and Townsend, War Wives.
page 232. ‘A soldier based …’: cited in Grenfell, The Time of My Life.
page 232. ‘The agony aunts …’: see Waller and Vaughan-Rees, Women in Wartime.
page 232. ‘Pregnant mums …’: see Longmate, How We Lived Then.
pages 232–3. ‘Madeleine Henrey …’: MH/LONDON.
pages 233–4. ‘Verily Bruce was another …’: VA/A; VA/SPAM.
pages 235–9. ‘In 1942–3 QA Lorna Bradey’s …’: LK/MD.
pages 240–41. ‘In the summer of 1943 …’: NB/TIME.
page 241. ‘Shirley Goodhart …’: MO.
pages 241–2. ‘Margery Baines (née Berney) …’: MB/NGS.
page 242. ‘People talk …’: MP-D/NY.
page 242. ‘Naomi Mitchison took …’: NM/NOTES.
pages 242–3. ‘Land girl Kay Mellis’s …’: KW/A.
page 243. ‘Lovely breakfasts …’: CM/MM.
page 243. ‘I just wanted …’: PC-H/A.
page 243. ‘In 1944 the author …’: Margaret Goldsmith, Women and the Future.
pages 243–5. ‘Nella Last listened …’: NL/NLW.
Chapter 8: Over There
page 246. ‘No chance of chicken …’: Hodgson, Few Eggs and No Oranges.
page 246. ‘Naomi Mitchison hung …’: NM/NOTES.
page 246. ‘Wren Maureen Bolster …’: Maureen Wells, Entertaining Eric: A Wartime Love Story.
page 246. ‘In Inverness, Joan Wyndham …’: JW/LB.
page 246. ‘Nella Last wished …’: NL/NLW.
pages 246–7. ‘In Croydon, Elsie Whiteman …’: Bruley, ed., Working for Victory.
page 247. ‘Clara Milburn went …’: CM/MM.
page 247. ‘Some of you may …’: reported in The Times, 28 December 1943.
page 247. ‘Mike Morris of the “Y” …’: AC/ENEMY.
page 248. ‘Some people think …’: cited in Koa Wing, ed., Our Longest Days.
page 248. ‘I’m just living for the day …’: cited in Tamasin Day-Lewis, ed., Last Letters Home.
pages 249–51. ‘Joyce Grenfell had packed …’: see Grenfell, The Time of My Life; Hampton, ed., Joyce and Ginnie.
pages 251–4. ‘Vera Lynn’s travel experiences …’: author interview with Dame Vera Lynn, 2009; interview with Nigel Farndale, Daily Telegraph, 17 August 2009.
pages 254–5. ‘At the famous Windmill Theatre …’: see Doris Barry in Nicholson, What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?
page 255. ‘Theatre director Nancy Hewins …’: see entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
pages 255–6. ‘twenty-two-year-old Isa Barker …’: author interview with Isa Rankin, née Barker, 2008.
page 256. ‘ATS recruit Vera Roberts …’: author interview with Vera Roberts, 2009.
pages 256–9. ‘For Helen Forrester …’: HF/LIME.
pages 259–60. ‘Monica Littleboy …’: MS/MEM.
page 260. ‘On 2 April a friend …’: FP/PW.
page 260. ‘Up in Scotland …’: NM/NOTES.
page 260. ‘Verily Anderson …’: VA/SPAM.
pages 260–61. ‘When Vera Brittain …’: Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience: An Autobiographical Story of the Years 1925–1950.
page 261. ‘a nuisance to anyone …’: MO.
page 261. ‘The routine …’: DW/DV.
page 261. ‘Mavis Lever was able …’: MB/A.
page 261. ‘SOE agents …’: see Mar.P/OI.
pages 262–3. ‘Senior Wren Christian Lamb …’: CL/HAT.
page 263. ‘WAAF Edna Hodgson …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A2300400.
page 263. ‘like Maureen Bolster …’: Wells, Entertaining Eric.
pages 263–4. ‘On his last leave …’: HF/LIME.
page 264. ‘Sylvia Kay …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A3094238.
page 264. ‘ATS volunteer Mary Macleod …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A4910528.
page 264. ‘A young Irish nurse …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A8999004.
page 264. ‘QA Maureen Gara …’: Obituary of Lieutenant-Colonel Maureen Gara, Daily Telegraph, 27 December 2009.
page 264. ‘Meanwhile, Monica …’: MS/MEM.
page 264. ‘On 24 May Elsie Whiteman …’: Bruley, ed., Working for Victory.
pages 264–5. ‘Twenty-eight-year-old Aileen Hawkins …’: see Obituary of Aileen Hawkins in The Thomas Hardy Fellowship Newsletter 13 (Winter 2006), ed. John Pentney; poem in Anne Powell, ed., Shadows of War: British Women’s Poetry of the Second World War.
pages 265–6. ‘We are gated …’: Wells, Entertaining Eric.
page 266. ‘D-day had been scheduled …’: see Antony Beevor, D-Day: The Battle for Normandy.
page 266. ‘On the Isle of Wight …’: MS/MEM.
page 266. ‘The typists working …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A4910528.
page 266. ‘Clara Milburn hung …’: CM/MM.
pages 266–7. ‘Verily Anderson and Julie …’: VA/SPAM.
page 267. ‘Sheets hung out …’: cited in Longmate, ed., The Home Front.
page 267. ‘Sheila Hails, marooned …’: SH-J/A.
pages 267–8. ‘Mollie Panter-Downes …’: MP-D/NY.
page 268. ‘For London-based Frenchwoman …’: MH/LONDON; MH/FARM.
pages 268–9. ‘All around us …’: Rozelle Raynes, Maid Matelot.
pages 269–70. ‘From the Isle of Wight …’: MS/MEM.
page 270. ‘in Nancy O’Sullivan’s …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A8999004.
page 270. ‘In Portsmouth …’: The D-day and Normandy Fellowship website, http://ddnf.org.uk/, D-Day Memories of Naina Cox.
pages 270–71. ‘Monica Littleboy accompanied …’: MS/MEM.
page 271. ‘Maureen Bolster was …’: Wells, Entertaining Eric.
pages 271–3. ‘That June, Helen Forrester …’: HF/LIME.
page 273. ‘Wrens like Ena Howes …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A4162187.
pages 273–4. ‘Iris Ogilvie …’: see Cross and de Gex, Unsung Heroines; also obituary of Iris Ogilvie, Daily Telegraph, 10 January 2006.
pages 274–8. ‘QA Joy Taverner …’: JoyT/A; see also BBC/PW, article ID: A1096580 (reprinted with permission); excerpt from ‘Until Belsen’ in Powell, ed., Shadows of War.
Chapter 9: No Real Victory
pages 279–80. ‘Miss Florence Speed …’: Florence Speed, Diary of Miss F. M. Speed, Imperial War Museum, Department of Documents, IWM 86/45/2.
page 280. ‘London is in a chastened …’: Hodgson, Few Eggs and No Oranges.
page 280. ‘the “up-for-the-day …” ’:MP-D/NY.
pages 280–81. ‘I don’t like these Bombs …’: in Campbell-Preston, The Rich Spoils of Time.
page 281. ‘As code-breaker …’: MB/A.
pages 282–3. ‘In 1943 ATS …’: DB/GIRLS.
page 283. ‘Horrible creatures …’: CM/MM.
page 283. ‘We all thought …’: cited in Koa Wing, ed., Our Longest Days.
pages 283–4. ‘Swamped as she was …’: MB/NGS.
page 284. ‘Maggie Joy Blunt …’: MO; and see Simon Garfield, Our Hidden Lives – The Remarkable Diaries of Post-war Britain.
page 284. ‘Barbara Cartland questioned …’: BC/YO.
page 284. ‘In summer 1944 …’: cited in David Kynaston, Austerity Britain 1945–1951.
page 285. ‘Writing in 1953 …’: Vera Brittain, Lady into Woman: A History of Women from Victoria to Elizabeth II.
page 286. ‘What would you be doing …’: DB/GIRLS.
page 286. ‘I long for an excuse …’: MO.
page 288. ‘one smart lady …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A2915705.
page 288. ‘We were a lot fitter …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A4050749.
page 288. ‘Frances Faviell bicycled …’: FF/CHELSEA.
page 288. ‘Don’t forget …’: JT/A.
page 289. ‘The public has been asked …’: MP-D/NY.
page 289. ‘Lady Clementine Beit …’: see Peggy Scott, British Women at War.
page 290. ‘When you feel tired …’: cited in Longmate, How We Lived Then.
page 291. ‘Constance Galilee …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A2915705.
page 291. ‘I’ve hardly anything …’: MO.
page 291. ‘The thoughtful Barbara Cartland …’: BC/YO.
page 291. ‘One diarist described …’: MO.
page 292. ‘Phyllis Noble’s mum …’: PW/CAW.
page 292. ‘Frances Partridge was one …’: FP/PW.
page 292. ‘In September 1943 …’: Speed, Diary.
page 292. ‘For Sheila Hails …’: SH-J/A.
pages 292–3. ‘It took the war …’: NL/NLW.
page 293. ‘Our mums could cook …’: JT/A.
pages 293–7. ‘One of them was Margaret Herbertson …’: Mar.P/OI; Mar.P/A.
pages 297–301. ‘QA Joy Taverner …’: JoyT/A; JoyT/PP; JoyT/PW; excerpt from ‘Until Belsen’ in Powell, ed., Shadows of War.
page 298. ‘A British reporter …’: transcript of Richard Dimbleby’s report given on www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WW.
page 301. ‘Maggie Joy Blunt could …’: MO.
page 301. ‘Anne Popham’s job …’: AP/A.
pages 301–2. ‘Maggie Joy Blunt was equally …’: MO.
page 302. ‘Joan Wyndham’s party spirits …’: JW/LB.
page 302. ‘Clara Milburn listened …’: CM/MM.
page 302. ‘Vere Hodgson shared …’: Hodgson, Few Eggs and No Oranges.
page 302. ‘Naomi Mitchison had witnessed …’: NM/NOTES.
page 302. ‘Sheila Hails, a pacifist …’: SH-J/A.
pages 302–3. ‘Frances Partridge, as usual …’: FP/PW.
page 303. ‘Thelma Ryder’s concerns …’: TR/A.
page 303. ‘There is no such thing …’: ‘September 1, 1939’, first published in book form in W. H. Auden, Another Time.
page 304. ‘In 2003 Joy Taverner’s …’: JoyT/PW.
pages 304–7. ‘Maggie Joy Blunt was appalled …’: MO.
Chapter 10: A Brave New World
page 308. ‘Mary Angove let rip …’: MD/A.
pages 308–9. ‘Verily Anderson and …’: VA/SPAM.
pages 308–9. ‘The German war …’: see A Churchill Anthology.
page 309. ‘Looking on, Mollie Panter-Downes …’: MP-D/NY.
pages 309–10. ‘Marguerite Patten’s mother …’: MP/A.
page 310. ‘ “A magic night” …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A2756351.
page 310. ‘Vere Hodgson recorded …’: Hodgson, Few Eggs and No Oranges.
page 310. ‘Like thousands …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A1951355.
page 310. ‘Teenager Anne Thompson …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A40575117.
page 310. ‘In Oxford …’: NB/TIME.
page 311. ‘Like many others …’: cited in Koa Wing, ed., Our Longest Days.
page 311. ‘Muriel Green got drunk …’: cited in ibid.
page 311. ‘Joan Wyndham headed …’: JW/LB.
page 311. ‘One young woman …’: cited in Wicks, Welcome Home
page 311. ‘Another woman …’: cited in Longmate, ed., The Home Front.
pages 311–12. ‘Soldiers like Jack Clark …’: cited in Day-Lewis, ed., Last Letters Home.
page 312. ‘By 1945 QA Lorna Bradey …’: LK/MD.
pages 312–13. ‘Margaret Herbertson remained …’: Mar.P/OI.
page 313. ‘Widowed at the age …’: CW/A.
page 313. ‘Monica Littleboy …’: MS/MEM.
pages 313–14. ‘Thelma Ryder didn’t …’: TR/A.
page 314. ‘The diarist Shirley Goodhart …’: MO.
pages 314–16. ‘On VE-day Jack Milburn …’: CM/MM.
pages 316–17. ‘Patrick Campbell-Preston …’: Campbell-Preston, The Rich Spoils of Time.
page 317. ‘Jean McFadyen was still working …’: JP/A.
pages 317–19. ‘Doris Scorer’s boyfriend …’: DW/DV.
page 319. ‘Frank was to prove …’: information from Roger Kitchen, Wolverton, and recorded interview with Doris White, Living Archive Online, Milton Keynes.
page 319. ‘Helen Forrester couldn’t help …’: HF/LIME.
pages 319–20. ‘WAAF driver Flo Mahony …’: FM/A.
page 320. ‘Flo Mahony’s friend …’: JT/A.
pages 320–22. ‘Still in Italy …’: Mar.P/OI.
page 322. ‘QA Lorna Bradey …’: LK/MD.
page 323. ‘Zelma Katin had become …’: Katin, Clippie.
page 323. ‘Naomi Mitchison’s socialism …’: Naomi Mitchison to Tom Harrisson, 9 October 1944, cited in Jenni Calder, The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison.
page 323. ‘Vera Brittain had spent …’: see entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
page 324. ‘On VE-day Nella …’: NL/NLW.
pages 324–6. ‘The wife of a Surrey vicar …’: see entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; also Paul Addison, Now the War Is Over: A Social History of Britain 1945–51; and The Times, 9 July 1946, 12 September 1947.
page 327. ‘Shirley Goodhart’s Mass Observation …’: MO.
pages 327–8. ‘The Oxford student …’: NB/TIME.
page 328. ‘The Labour manifesto …’: see Kynaston, Austerity Britain.
pages 328–9 ‘Naomi Mitchison had mixed …’: NM/NOTES, and Calder, The Nine Lives.
page 329. ‘Britain was still living …’: see Kynaston, Austerity Britain.
page 329. ‘Nella Last couldn’t get …’: NL/NLW.
page 329. ‘In Slough, Maggie Joy Blunt …’: MO.
page 329. ‘Barbara Pym often felt …’: Pym, A Very Private Eye.
page 329. ‘Mary Wesley remarked …’: see Marnham, Wild Mary.
pages 329–30. ‘In Paris …’: Cooper, Trumpets from the Steep.
page 330. ‘People laughed when …’: cited in Longmate, How We Lived Then.
pages 330–31. ‘The middle-aged novelist …’: Ursula Bloom, Trilogy.
pages 331–2. ‘But Nina Mabey couldn’t be there …’: NB/TIME.
page 332. ‘Naomi Mitchison had come down …’: Calder, The Nine Lives.
pages 332–3. ‘Some Tories, like Virginia Graham …’: see Anne Harvey’s preface to Virginia Graham, Consider the Years.
page 333. ‘Nella Last called in …’: NL/NLW.
page 333. ‘Ursula Bloom felt …’: Ursula Bloom, Trilogy.
page 334. ‘Thelma Ryder felt …’: TR/A.
pages 334–5. ‘At last, at long last! …’: cited in Koa Wing, Our Longest Days.
page 335. ‘Eileen Jones …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A4506851.
page 335. ‘One despairing woman …’: Mass Observation, Peace and the Public.
page 335. ‘Ursula Bloom spent …’: Bloom, Trilogy.
page 335. ‘Nella Last felt …’: NL/NLW.
page 335. ‘Frances Partridge …’: FP/PW.
page 336. ‘The Daily Mail columnist …’: Daily Mail, 9 August 1945.
pages 336–7. ‘On VJ-day Lorna Bradey …’: LK/MD.
pages 337–8. ‘For Phyllis Noble …’: PW/CAW.
page 338. ‘Helen Forrester too …’: HF/LIME.
pages 338–9. ‘Monica Littleboy’s memories …’: MS/MEM.
pages 339–40. ‘Thelma Ryder was luckier …’: TR/A.
Chapter 11: Picking Up the Threads
pages 341–2. ‘When the war ended …’: MO.
page 343. ‘Ex-FANY Margaret Herbertson …’: Mar.P/A.
page 343. ‘Mike Morris …’ etc: for all sources see under individual names in abbreviations list.
page 344. ‘The rejoicing had gone sour …’: Bloom, Trilogy.
page 344. ‘Woman’s Own columnist …’: Woman’s Own, March 1946.
page 345. ‘One uniformed bride-to-be …’: cited in Sheridan, ed., Wartime Women.
pages 345–6. ‘Nurse Helen Vlasto …’: HL/CI.
page 346. ‘the white flame …’: NL/NLW.
pages 346–7. ‘Ex-Flight Officer Wyndham …’: JW/AO.
pages 347–8. ‘Wren telegraphist …’: letter to author from Anne Glynn-Jones.
page 348. ‘Flo Mahony thrived …’: FM/A.
page 348. ‘An edifice seemed …’: PB/WAAF.
page 348. ‘Stoker Wren Rozelle Raynes …’: Raynes, Maid Matelot.
page 349. ‘But Jean McFadyen …’: JP/A.
pages 350–51. ‘When Joan and Les Kelsall …’: JK/A.
page 351. ‘Four walls and a roof …’: cited in Kynaston, Austerity Britain.
pages 351–2. ‘the squatting bandwagon …’: see Addison, Now the War Is Over.
page 352. ‘The journalist Mollie Panter-Downes …’: MP-D/NY.
pages 352–3. ‘Nella Last was open-eyed …’: NL/NLP.
page 353. ‘The new world was hard …’: Bloom, Trilogy.
page 353. ‘All too often …’: MP-D/NY.
pages 353–4. ‘The writer Angela du Maurier …’: Angela du Maurier, It’s Only the Sister: An Autobiography.
page 354. ‘The diarist Maggie Joy Blunt …’: MO.
page 354. ‘Nevertheless, Mary Manton …’: Daily Sketch, November 1945.
pages 354–5. ‘Sylvia Duncan was another …’: Daily Sketch, February 1946.
page 355. ‘ “E”, writing to the Daily Mail …’: Daily Mail, 16 October 1945.
page 355. ‘Nella Last tried to identify …’: NL/NLP.
page 355. ‘There is not room …’: Daily Mail, 16 August 1945.
pages 355–6. ‘Helen Forrester put her devastated …’: HF/LIME.
page 356. Flo Mahony was demobilised …’: FM/A.
pages 356–8. ‘VAD Helen Vlasto …’: HL/CI.
pages 358–9. ‘Joan Wyndham put £5 …’: JW/AO.
pages 359–61. ‘Verily Anderson was almost never …’: VA/SPAM.
page 361. ‘Good morning, my sweet …’: cited in Susan Briggs, Keep Smiling Through: The Home Front 1939–45.
page 362. ‘the historian Harold L. Smith …’: Smith, ‘The Effect of War on the Status of Women’.
pages 362–4. ‘One of these was Dolly Scannell …’: Scannell, Dolly’s War.
page 363. ‘Don’t expect to pick up …’: cited in Summers, Stranger in the House.
page 365. ‘Probably, “When I was in Peshawar in ’43” …’: These examples cited by ibid., Alan Allport, Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War, and various contemporary newspaper articles and correspondence.
page 365. ‘Desert rat Charles Hopkinson …’: cited in Wicks, Welcome Home.
pages 365–7. ‘Once demobbed, Chas Scannell …’: Scannell, Dolly’s War.
page 366. ‘Cookery expert Marguerite Patten’s …’: MP/A.
page 367. ‘Ann Temple’s finger …’: article and correspondence in Daily Mail, 16 October 1945.
page 369. ‘the big-hearted tolerance of Greg James …’: cited in Summers, Stranger in the House.
page 369. ‘the murderous rage of Private Reginald Keymer … Sergeant Albert Nettleton … Private Cyril Patmore … ex-serviceman Leonard Holmes …’: see Allport, Demobbed.
pages 369–70. ‘One of the few things …’: MB/NGS.
page 370. ‘I am going to have …’: Woman, 23 February 1946.
page 370. ‘I am ashamed to say …’: Woman, 16 February 1946.
page 370. ‘I am engaged …’: Woman’s Own, March 1946.
pages 371–3. ‘Shortly after the liberation …’: MH/FARM.
Chapter 12: A Bitter Time
page 374. ‘the romantic fiction author Miss Florence Speed …’: Speed, Diary.
pages 374–5. ‘Three months earlier …’: from reports in The Times, the Daily Sketch.
pages 375–81. ‘More than 100,000 of these had married …’: see Shukert and Scibetta, War Brides; and http://uswarbrides.com.
pages 376–8. ‘Victoria Stevenson …’: Woman’s Own, March 1946.
page 377. ‘But Elizabeth Jane Howard …’: EJH/A.
pages 378–9. ‘When she first met Kenneth Davis …’: MD/A.
pages 379–80. ‘Peggy came from a …’: Margaret H. Wharton, Recollections of a GI War Bride: A Wiltshire Childhood.
pages 380–81. ‘Elizabeth Jane Howard’s account …’: EJH/A.
page 380. ‘As one ex-Wren bride recalled …’: http://uswarbrides.com.
page 381. ‘Fred – Fred – dear Fred …’: from Brief Encounter, script by Noël Coward, directed by David Lean.
pages 382–3. ‘One 8th Army driver …’: cited in Allport, Demobbed.
page 383. ‘One psychologist …’: Reg Ellery, Psychiatric Aspects of Modern Warfare, cited in ibid.
pages 383–4. ‘In the spring of 1946 …’: NB/TIME.
pages 384–5. ‘Or take the case of …’: CL/A, CL/HAT.
pages 385–6. ‘Patience Chadwyck-Healey was another …’: PC-H/A.
page 386. ‘Frances Campbell-Preston was another …’: Campbell-Preston, The Rich Spoils of Time.
page 386. ‘Pip Beck – ex-WAAF …’: PB/A.
page 386. ‘Cora Johnston, née Styles …’: CW/A.
page 386. ‘Flo Mahony, ex-WAAF …’: FM/A.
page 387. ‘Eileen Morgan, née Rouse …’: author interview with Eileen Morgan, née Rouse, 2008.
pages 387–9. ‘Like so many, Margery Baines …’: MB/NGS.
pages 389–90. ‘WAAF Pip Beck …’: PB/A; and author interview with Peter Brimson, 2010.
pages 390–91. ‘After Cora Johnston’s husband …’: CW/A.
page 391. ‘Joy Taverner married …’: author interview with Michael Trindles and Sue Green (son and daughter of Joy Trindles, née Taverner); JoyT/PP.
pages 391–3. ‘In the autumn of 1945 …’: MS/MEM.
pages 393–5. ‘Phyllis Noble was blessed …’: PW/CAW, PW/JS.
page 395. ‘My generation was …’: SH-J/A.
pages 395–6. ‘Frances Partridge was another …’: FP/EL.
page 396. ‘Vera Lynn also …’: author interview with Dame Vera Lynn, 2009.
pages 396–8. ‘WAAF Mike Morris …’: AC/PP.
pages 398–401. ‘In November 1945 …’: AP/A, AP/PP.
page 401. ‘When QA Lorna Bradey …’: LK/MD.
pages 401–3. ‘But the artist Frances Faviell …’: FF/BEAR.
pages 403–4. ‘A Woman in Berlin …’: Anonymous, A Woman in Berlin, translated by Philip Boehm.
page 403. ‘As Virginia Woolf had written …’: from Woolf, ‘Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid’.
page 404. ‘By the time Phyllis Noble …’: PW/JS.
page 404. ‘blizzards were making headlines …’: The Times, the Daily Sketch.
pages 404–5. ‘Maggie Joy Blunt went shopping …’: MO.
pages 405–6. ‘The nation shivered …’: for an account of the cold winter of 1947 see Kynaston, Austerity Britain.
page 406. ‘Bakers were prohibited …’: Daily Express, 12 February 1947.
page 406. ‘The Daily Mirror offered suggestions …’: Daily Mirror, 14 February 1947.
page 406. ‘Margaret Herbertson, who …’: Mar.P/A.
page 406. ‘Thrifty Nella Last …’: NL/NLP.
page 406. ‘Maggie Joy Blunt struggled …’: MO.
pages 407–10. ‘Frances Faviell’s account …’: FF/BEAR.
Chapter 13: There’ll Be Bluebirds
page 411. ‘I’m not clever …’: NL/NLP.
page 412. ‘Mary Grieve, the editor …’: Grieve, Millions Made My Story.
page 412. ‘The rich could not pay more …’: Bloom, Trilogy.
page 412. ‘Frances Campbell-Preston’s family …’: Campbell-Preston, The Rich Spoils of Time.
page 413. ‘The war certainly taught …’: BC/YO; and Henry Cloud, Barbara Cartland: Crusader in Pink.
page 413. ‘Allowing for the general impoverishment …’: George Orwell, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4.
pages 413–14. ‘In 1948 the sociologist …’: Jephcott, Rising Twenty.
page 414. ‘Nella Last began to assess …’: NL/NLP.
page 415. ‘I’m having a deliberately …’: MO.
page 415. ‘The holiday-camp phenomenon …’: Valerie A. Tedder, Post-war Blues.
pages 415–16. At the other end of the social scale …’: MP-D/NY.
pages 416–19. ‘The New Look …’: see Pearson Phillips, ‘The New Look’, in Michael Sissons and Philip French, eds., Age of Austerity; and Harry Hopkins, The New Look: A Social History of the Forties and Fifties in Britain.
page 417. ‘as Anne Scott-James … insisted …’: letter to The Times, 29 September 1947.
page 417. ‘Much as the average woman …’: letter to The Times, 1 October 1947.
page 418. ‘Women today are taking …’: Mabel Ridealgh, MP, cited in Sissons and French, eds., Age of Austerity.
page 418. ‘Oh yes, I’d have liked …’: TR/A.
pages 418–19, 420. ‘Shirley Goodhart was one …’: MO.
page 420. ‘Maggie Joy Blunt wrote …’: MO.
page 420. ‘The romantic novelist …’: Speed, Diary.
page 421. ‘young women like Doffy Brewer …’: DB/A.
pages 421–4. ‘After losing two fiancés …’: HF/LIME; HF/THURS; and author interview with Robert Bhatia.
pages 424–8. ‘The idea of marriage …’: PW/JS; PW/CCA; PW/A.
pages 428–9. ‘On Day One a Leeds woman …’: examples cited in Addison, Now the War Is Over.
pages 429–30. ‘Domestic servant Margaret Powell …’: Powell, Climbing the Stairs.
pages 430–31. ‘In his essay, “Woman’s Place” …’: William Emrys Williams, ‘Women’s Role’, in Current Affairs Magazine, 11 January 1947.
page 432. ‘Shirley Goodhart was one young wife …’: MO.
page 432. ‘post-war career advice …’: examples from Everywoman, 1948.
pages 432–4. ‘Since the age of sixteen …’: PW/JS; PW/CCA; PW/A.
pages 434–6. ‘For Joan Wyndham …’: JW/AO.
pages 436–7. ‘Nina Bawden’s creative talents …’: NB/TIME.
page 437. ‘Grossly unfair …’: cited in Wicks, Welcome Home.
page 437. ‘Ursula Bloom, who …’: Bloom, Trilogy.
page 438. ‘In the same vein, Barbara Cartland …’: BC/YO.
page 438. ‘the social researcher Ferdinand Zweig …’: Ferdinand Zweig, Women’s Life and Labour.
pages 438–9. ‘In 1947 a galaxy …’: Olwen W. Campbell, The Report of a Conference on The Feminine Point of View.
page 442. ‘First, a wedding photograph …’: HL/CI; author correspondence with Christopher Long.
page 442. ‘Ilkley Road, Barrow-in-Furness …’: NL/NLP.
pages 442–3. ‘A cottage in Slough …’: see Garfield, Our Hidden Lives.
page 444. ‘A summer day in Piccadilly …’: MH/JOURNAL.
pages 444–5. ‘Ham Spray House …’: FP/EL.
page 444. ‘Oundle, Northamptonshire …’: LK/MD; author interview with Ralph Kite (son of Ralph and Lorna Kite, née Bradey).
page 444. A railway station in Sussex …’: AP/A.
pages 444–5. ‘Ontario, Canada …’: MB/A.
page 445. ‘Edinburgh: Jean Park …’: JP/A.
pages 445–6. ‘Blackheath, London …’: author interviews with Elizabeth Paterson (Mary Cornish’s niece), 2009, and Maggie Paterson (niece-in-law), 2009; and private papers of Mary Cornish, courtesy of Maggie Paterson.
page 446. ‘Leamington Spa, Warwickshire …’: CM/MM.
page 447. ‘South Kensington …’: FF/CHELSEA; author interview with Mrs Pamela Hanbury.
pages 447–8. North Berwick, the Firth of Forth …’: KW/A.