Authors: Virginia Nicholson
Massingberd, and entry on Eve Balfour in the
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
.
page
. ‘The drive . . .’: Entry on Rowena Cade in the
Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography
.
pages –
. ‘Miss Ellen Wilkinson . . .’:
Ellen Wilkinson –
by Betty D.
Vernon.
pages –
. ‘The sure march . . .’: Unless cited in the text or noted below, the principal source for the women described in this section is the
Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography
.
page
. Nancy Seear: Case cited in
Out of the Dolls House – The Story of Women
in the Twentieth Century
by Angela Holdsworth.
page
. Dame Mary Smieton: Obituary,
Guardian
, January .
page
. Mary Allen:
The Pioneer Policewoman
by Mary S. Allen.
Singled Out
page
. Victoria Drummond:
The Remarkable Life of Victoria Drummond, Marine
Engineer
by Cherry Drummond.
page
. Mary Freeman: British Library Millennium Memory Bank Oral History collection.
page
. Honor Fell (and others): ‘Women in Medical and Biomedical Science’, essay by Lesley A. Hall in
This Working-Day World – Women’s Lives and Culture(s)
in Britain –
, ed. Sybil Oldfield.
page
. Barbara Wootton:
In a World I Never Made – Autobiographical Reflections
by Barbara Wootton.
page
. Margery Fry:
Margery Fry – The Essential Amateur
by Enid Huws Jones.
page
. Enid Starkie:
Enid Starkie
by Joanna Richardson.
page
. Cicely Williams, Doreen Warriner, Evelyn Bark: Cited in
Women
Humanitarians – A Biographical Dictionary of British Women Active between and
by Sybil Oldfield.
page
. Cicely Hamilton:
Life Errant
by Cicely Hamilton.
pages –
. Beatrice Gordon Holmes:
In Love with Life
by Beatrice Gordon Holmes.
page
. Alice Head:
It Could Never Have Happened
by Alice M. Head.
page
. Margaret Pilkington:
Margaret Pilkington –
, biographical essay by David Blamires.
page
. Irene Handl, Doris Speed and Margot Bryant:
The Daily Telegraph Book
of Obituaries
, ed. H. Massingberd.
pages –
. Myra Hess:
Myra Hess – A Portrait
by Marian C. McKenna.
‘ y o u l o v e d h i m ’
page
. ‘When Mary Grieve . . .’:
Millions Made My Story
by Mary Grieve.
page
. ‘Comparing the contribution . . .’: Alison Wolf, ‘Working Girls’, in
Prospect Magazine
, April , No. .
page
. ‘Anyone can get married . . .’:
Biography of Florence White
(unpublished) by D. J. Prickett.
pages –
. ‘In her ninety-fifth year . . .’:
Mixed Memoirs
by Gertrude Caton-Thompson.
page
. ‘A fellow academic . . .’: ‘Gertrude Caton-Thompson, –’ by Margaret S. Drower, in
Breaking Ground – Pioneering Women Archaeologists
, ed.
Getzel M. Cohen and Martha Sharp Joukowsky.
I consulted over books while researching this one. The following list, while not comprehensive, credits the main works which I found indispensable to an understanding of the period and subject-matter.
Biography, Memoirs, Autobiography
Ackland, Valentine
,
For Sylvia: An Honest Account
, Hogarth Press, London, .
Allen, Mary S.
,
The Pioneer Policewoman
, Chatto & Windus, London, .
Asquith, The Countess of Oxford and (ed.)
,
Myself When Young – by Famous
Women of Today
, Frederick Muller, London, .
Baldwin, Monica
,
I Leap Over the Wall
, Hamish Hamilton, London, .
Bentley, Phyllis
,
O Dreams, O Destinations – An Autobiography
, Gollancz, London, .
Blamires, David
,
Margaret Pilkington –
, Hermit Press, Buxton, .
Bondfield, the Rt Hon. Margaret
,
A Life’s Work – The Record of More than Half
a Century of Public Life
, Hutchinson, London, .
Brittain, Vera
,
Testament of Youth
, Gollancz, London, .
Brittain, Vera
,
Testament of Experience
, Gollancz, London, .
Brittain, Vera, and Handley-Taylor, Geoffrey (eds.)
,
Selected Letters of Winifred
Holtby and Vera Brittain –
, A. Brown, London, .
Brown, Beatrice Curtis
,
Southwards from Swiss Cottage
, Home and Van Thal, London, .
Bull, Angela
,
Noel Streatfeild – A Biography
, Collins, London, .
Burgess, Alan
,
The Small Woman
, Evans Brothers, London, .
Cadogan, Mary
,
Richmal Crompton – The Woman Behind William
, Allen & Unwin, London, .
Cannan, May Wedderburn
,
Grey Ghosts and Voices
, Roundwood Press, .
Cartland, Barbara
,
The Isthmus Years
, Hutchinson, London, .
Caton-Thompson, Gertrude
,
Mixed Memoirs
, Paradigm Press, Gateshead, .
Cheesman, Evelyn
,
Time Well Spent
, Hutchinson, London, .
Clarke, Mary G.
,
A Short Life of Ninety Years
, A. & M. Huggins, Edinburgh, .
Cline, Sally
,
Radclyffe Hall – A Woman Called John
, John Murray, .
Cloete, Stuart
,
A Victorian Son – An Autobiography –
, Collins, London, .
Select Bibliography
Close, Etta
,
A Woman Alone, in Kenya, Uganda and the Belgian Congo
, Constable, London, .
Cowdroy, Charlotte
,
Wasted Womanhood
, Allen & Unwin, .
De Bunsen, Mary
,
Mount Up with Wings
, Hutchinson, London, .
Drower, Margaret S.
, ‘Gertrude Caton-Thompson, –’, in Getzel M.
Cohen and Martha Sharp Joukowsky (eds.),
Breaking Ground – Pioneering Women
Archaeologists
, University of Michigan Press, .
Drummond, Cherry
,
The Remarkable Life of Victoria Drummond, Marine Engineer
, Institute of Marine Engineers, London, .
Du Maurier, Angela
,
It’s Only the Sister
, Peter Davies, London, .
Du Maurier, Angela
,
Old Maids Remember
, Peter Davies, London, .
Essex, Rosamund
,
Woman in a Man’s World
, Sheldon Press, London, .
Evans, Dame Joan
,
Prelude and Fugue – An Autobiography
, Museum Press, London, .
Faithfull, Lilian
,
In the House of My Pilgrimage
, Chatto & Windus, London, .
Fyfe, Charlotte (ed.)
,
The Tears of War – the Love Story of a Young Poet and a War
Hero – May Cannan and Bevil Quiller-Couch
, Cavalier Books, .
Gardiner, Marjorie
,
The Other Side of the Counter – The Life of a Shop Girl –
, QueenSpark Books, Brighton, .
Goudge, Elizabeth
,
The Joy of the Snow – An Autobiography
, Hodder & Stoughton, London, .
Grieve, Mary
,
Millions Made My Story
, Victor Gollancz, London, .
Hale, Kathleen
,
A Slender Reputation – An Autobiography
, Frederick Warne, London, .
Hamilton, Cicely
,
Life Errant
, J. M. Dent, London, .
Hardy, Gladys M.
,
Yes, Matron
, Edward O. Beck, London, .
Harker, Cassy M., with Jack Glattbach
,
Call Me Matron
, Heinemann, London, .
Harrison, Rosina
,
Rose: My Life in Service
, Cassell & Co., London, .
Head, Alice M.
,
It Could Never Have Happened
, William Heinemann, London, .
Healey, Edna
,
Emma Darwin – The Inspirational Wife of a Genius
, Headline, London, .
Herbert-Hunting, Kate
,
Universal Aunts
, Constable, London, .
Hodgkiss, Winifred Haward
,
Two Lives
, Yorkshire Art Circus, Barnsley, .
Holmes, Beatrice Gordon
,
In Love with Life – A Pioneer Career Woman’s Story
, Hollis & Carter, London, .
Huws Jones, Enid
,
Margery Fry – The Essential Amateur
, Oxford University Press, .
Mannin, Ethel
,
All Experience
, Beacon Library, .
Select Bibliography
Massingberd, Hugh (ed.)
,
The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries
, vols., Macmillan, .
Maxwell, William (ed.)
,
Sylvia Townsend Warner – Letters
, Chatto & Windus, London, .
McKenna, Marian C.
,
Myra Hess – A Portrait
, Hamish Hamilton, London, .
Meynell, Dame Alix
,
Public Servant, Private Woman – An Autobiography
, Victor Gollancz, London, .
Millard, Shirley
,
I Saw Them Die – Diary and Recollections
, ed. Adele Comandini, Harrap, London, .
Mitford, Jessica
,
Hons and Rebels
, Gollancz, London, .
Perham, Margery
,
African Apprenticeship – An Autobiographical Journey in Southern
Africa
, Faber and Faber, London, .
Prickett, D. J.
,
Biography of Florence White
, n.d., unpublished
(www.historytoher-
story.org.uk
Yorkshire Women’s Lives on-line).
Raverat, Gwen
,
Period Piece – A Cambridge Childhood
, Faber and Faber, London, .
Richardson, Joanna
,
Enid Starkie
, John Murray, London, .
Roberts, Robert
,
A Ragged Schooling – Growing up in the Classic Slum
, Manchester University Press, .
Shaw, Marion
,
The Clear Stream – A Life of Winifred Holtby
, Virago, London, .
Spurling, Hilary
,
Ivy When Young – The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett –
, London, Gollancz, .
Spurling, Hilary
,
Secrets of a Woman’s Heart – The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett
–
, Hodder & Stoughton, .
Stark, Dame Freya
,
Traveller’s Prelude – Autobiography –
, John Murray, London, .
Streatfeild, Noe¨l
,
Beyond the Vicarage
, Collins, London, .
Sweetman, David
,
Mary Renault – A Biography
, London, .
Tindall, Gillian
,
Rosamond Lehmann – An Appreciation
, Hogarth Press, London, .
Troubridge, Una Lady
,
The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall
, Hammond, London, .
Vernon, Betty D.
,
Ellen Wilkinson –
, Croom Helm, London, .
White, Evelyne
,
Winifred Holtby as I Knew Her – A Study of the Author and Her
Works
, Collins, London, .
Willmott, Phyllis
,
A Singular Woman – The Life of Geraldine Aves –
, Whiting and Birch, London, .
Wootton, Barbara
,
In a World I Never Made – Autobiographical Reflections
, George Allen & Unwin, London, .
Select Bibliography
History, Psychology, Sociology, Advice
Abbott, Elizabeth
,
A History of Celibacy
, Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, .
Adam, Ruth
,
A Woman’s Place
, Chatto & Windus, .
Barron, Dana L.
, ‘Sex and Single Girls in the Twentieth-century City’, in
Journal
of Urban History
, Vol. , No. , September .
Beauchamp, Joan
,
Women Who Work
, Lawrence & Wishart, London, .
Beauman, Nicola
,
A Very Great Profession – The Woman’s Novel –
, Virago, London, .
Beddoe, Deirdre
,
Back to Home and Duty – Women between the Wars –
, Pandora Press, London, .
Berry, Paul, and Bishop, Alan (eds.)
,
Testament of a Generation – The Journalism
of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
, Virago, London, .
Birkett, Dea
,
Spinsters Abroad – Victorian Lady Explorers
, Blackwell, Oxford, .
Brookes, Pamela
,
Women at Westminster – An Account of Women in the British
Parliament –
, Peter Davies, London, .
Burgess, Clara Amy
,
The Sex Philosophy of a Bachelor Girl
, Advanced Thought Publishing, Chicago, .
Cannadine, David
, ‘War, Death and Mourning in Modern Britain’, in
Mirrors of
Mortality – Studies in the Social History of Death
, ed. Joachim Whaley, Europa Publications, London, .
Carrothers, W. A.
,
Emigration from the British Isles
, P. S. King, London, .
Castle, Terry
,
Noe¨l Coward and Radclyffe Hall
, Columbia University Press, New York, .