Authors: Virginia Nicholson
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.