Authors: Virginia Nicholson
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.