Authors: Virginia Nicholson
Tide
, ;
The Superfluous Woman
, Betjeman, John: ‘Business Girls’,
Britter, Kathleen,
Biron, Sir Chartres,
Bronte¨, Charlotte:
Jane Eyre
, –
Bishop, Isabella,
Brooks, Romaine,
Blaney, Norah, ,
Brown, Beatrice, –,
Bliss, Eileen,
Brown, Enid,
bohemianism, –,
Brown, Jimmy, , –
Bondfield, Margaret, –, –
Bryant, Margot,
Bournemouth High School for
Burgess, Clara Amy:
The Sex
Girls, ,
Philosophy of a Bachelor Girl
, Bowen, Elizabeth:
A Worldof Love
, –, –
Burlton, Gladys,
Bowen, Stella,
business: women in, –,
Bowerman, Elsie,
–, –, ,
Boyle, Dr Helen,
Braden, Norah,
Cade, Rowena,
Bradford: Spinsters’ Club,
CafeŔoyal, London, ,
Brett, Dorothy,
Cambridge University: delays full
Brinton, Ralph,
membershipfor women, n
British Federation of Business and
Cameron, Una May,
Professional Women,
Campbell, Sybil, –
British Social Hygiene Council
Canada: emigration to, –,
(
earlier
Eugenics Society), n Cannadine, David,
xiii
Brittain, Edward, ,
Cannan, May Wedderburn, ,
Brittain, Vera: loses fianceín war,
–,
–, , ; returns to war
canteens (food), –
work as VAD, ; Oxford
Carpenter, Edward, n
University education, –,
Carrington, Dora, ,
–; Victorian upbringing, , Carrothers, W.A.:
Emigration from
; friendshipwith Winifred
the British Isles
,
Holtby, –, , , –;
Carstairs, Jo,
marriage and children, n, ,
Cartland, Barbara, ,
; career, ; inadequate
Cartwright, Rani, , , –
suitors, ; visits brother’s
Catlin, Gordon, n, ,
colonel in hospital, ; sees
Catlin, John Edward,
advertisement for husband,
Caton-Thompson, Arthur,
–; prospect of motherhood,
Caton-Thompson, Gertrude:
; praises Winifred Holtby, ;
memoirs and writings, –, ,
Index
; background and interests,
Close, Etta, –;
A Woman
–, , , , ; relations
Alone in Kenya, Uganda and the
with Carlyon Mason-
Belgian Congo
,
MacFarlane, –, –;
clubs, , ,
volunteer war work, ; and
Cocker, Mary, –
Carlyon’s death, , , , ,
Cole, Margaret, –
; government work, , ,
Colvin, Brenda,
–; archaeological career and
companionship, , –
travels, , , –, ;
Compton-Burnett, (Dame) Ivy,
single state, ; later life and
–, –,
honours, ;
MixedMemoirs
, Compton-Burnett, Noe¨l,
;
The Desert Fayum
,
contraception,
cats: as companions,
convents, –
Cave of Harmony (club),
cookery books, –
celibacy, –, ,
Cooper, Lettice,
Census: (),
xi,
xiii,
–, , courtesans, –
, , ; (), ; (),
xi
Coward, Noe¨l, ,
chaperones,
Cowdroy, Charlotte, ;
Wasted
chastity, ;
see also
celibacy
Womanhood
,
Cheesman, Evelyn, ,
Cox, Miss (factory worker),
children: care of, –, –,
Craigdarroch, Scotland,
; unwanted, –; looked Cranborne (Cecil) family, ,
after by nursemaids, –;
see
Creagh, General Sir Garrett
also
motherhood O’Moore,
Chitticks, Emily, –,
Crompton, Richmal, , , ,
Christian Aid,
Christian Alliance of Women and
Cross, Miss D.,
Girls,
Cunard, Nancy, –
Christie, Agatha,
Curtis, Ethel,
Church of England: fails to
Cust, Aileen,
comfort war bereaved, ; and
unmarried women,
Daily Mail
, –, , , ,
Church Times
, –
dances and dancing, –, –,
Churchill, Sir Winston,
, ; homosexual,
Clarke, Miss E.D.,
Dare, Phyllis,
class (social): and marriage,
xiii,
; Darwin, Charles, , –
and working women, ; and
Darwin, Emma (
neé
Wedgwood), war casualties, –
–
Cloete, Eileen,
Davison, Emily Wilding,
Cloete, Stuart, –
de Bunsen, Mary,
Index
debutantes,
Electrical Journal
,
Delafield, E.M. (i.e. Edmeé
Eliot, T.S.:
The Waste Land
,
Elizabeth Monica Dashwood):
Elizabeth, Queen of George VI,
Thank Heaven Fasting
, –
Denby, Elizabeth,
Elliot, Enid,
depression (mental),
Elliott, Norah,
Dickens, Charles,
Ellis, Henry Havelock,
Dickens, Lieutenant G.,
Ellis, Mary Baxter,
Dicker, Miss (film production
emigration: to Empire and
technician),
colonies, –
Dillon, Tess, Una and Carmen,
Empire (British): emigration to,
–
–
Dillon’s bookshop, London,
engineering and technology:
doctors: women as,
women in, , , ,
dogs: as pets, –
–,
Dorelia
see
McNeill, Dorelia Enthoven, Gabrielle,
Drummond, Captain Malcolm,
Equal Franchise Act (),
Drummond, Victoria Alexandrina,
Essex, David (Rosamund’s adopted
–, ,
son),
Dudley, Gertie (Millar), Countess
Essex, Rosamund, , –,
of,
, ;
Woman in a Man’s
Dudley, Miss (of Stoke-on-Trent),
World
,
–
Evans, Joan, –;
Prelude and
du Maurier, Angela: remains
Fugue
,
unmarried, –, ; love of
Evans, Sir John and Maria, Lady,
children, ; parental influence
–
on, ; jilted, ; pet dog,
Evans, Mansfield Priestley,
–; interest in own sex, ;
Eyles, Leonora,
sense of ageing, –;
It’s Only
Eyre family,
the Sister
, ;
The Little Less
, ;
OldMaids Remember
,
factory work, –, –
du Maurier, Daphne, n
Fairfield, Dr Letitia,
du Maurier, Gerald, n,
Faithfull, Lilian, ,
Farrar, Gwen, ,
Eastbourne,
Faulder, Emily,
Edge, John,
Fawcett, Millicent, , , ,
education, , –;
see also
teaching
Fell, Dame Honor, –
Electrical Association for Women,
Fellowes, Julian:
GosfordPark
, n , ,
feminism: male reaction to, , ;
Index
woman’s view of, ; as
Rise andFall of the British Nanny
, movement, –, –; and
–
votes for women,
Gentry, Amy,
Ferguson, Rachel,
Gerard, Teddie,
Ffrangcon-Davies, Dame Gwen,
Germany: war casualties and single
women, n
Field, Louise,
‘Gert and Daisy’ (music hall act),
Fielding, Helen,
–
First World War: casualties,
xi,
xiii,
Gibson, ‘Pozzie’,
, & n, –, –, ;
gigolos,
liberates women for work,
Gilbert, W.S. and A.S. Sullivan:
–; and ‘Lost Generation’,
The Mikado
,
; effect on men, –
Gimbert, Billy, –
‘flappers’, ,
Gissing, George:
The Odd Women
, Forster, E.M.,
, –
Foster, Marjorie,
Gomm, Amy:
xiii
, –, , ; France: war casualties and single
Water Under the Bridge
,
women, n; tolerance,
Goodfellow, Lorel,
free love,
Goodfield, June,
Freeman, Margaret,
Gordon
see
Holmes, Beatrice Freeman, Mary,
Gordon
Freud, Sigmund, ,
Goudge, Elizabeth: family
Fromm, Erich:
The Art of Loving
, background and commitment,
–, ; dogs, , , ;
Fry, Margery, –, ;
The
nanny, ; on love, ;
Single Woman
, –, , , nervous breakdown, –;
relations with Jessie Monroe,
Furse, Clara,
–; philosophy of life, ;
Fussell, Paul,
writings, ;
Green Dolphin
Country
, ;
IslandMagic
, ; Gallichan, Walter M., , , ;
The Joy of the Snow
,
The Great Unmarried
, , ; Goudge, Ida (Elizabeth’s mother),
Modern Woman and How to
–, ,
Manage Her
, –, , ,
Graham, Frances and Jim,
Gamwell, Hope and Marian,
Graves, Robert and Alan Hodge:
Gardiner, Marjorie,
The Long Weekend
,
Garman, Kathleen,
Grieve, Mary Margaret, ,
Garrod, Dorothy,
Gulland, Mary,
Gaskell, Elizabeth:
Cranford
,
Gunn, Anita,
Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan:
The
Gyte, Maria,
Index
Haldane, Charlotte,
; lectureship, ; romances,
Hale, Kathleen,
–, ; in New Zealand, ,
Halford, Jeanette:
The Bachelor
–; writings, , ; returns
Girls’ Cook Book
, –
to England, ; teaching, ,
Hall, Radclyffe, –;
The Forge
, ; sense of incompleteness,
;
The Unlit Lamp
, ;
The
; career in radio, ; meets
Well of Loneliness
, –, –, and marries Louis Hodgkiss,
–
–; finances,
Halliday, Angela,
Head, Alice,
Ham Bone Club,
Health Insurance Act (), n
Hamilton, Cicely: single state, ,
Henry, May,
, ; childlessness, ; cat,
Herbert, A.P.: ‘Other People’s
–; on giving aid, ;
Babies’, –
feminism, –; writings, ;
Hess, Dame Myra, , –
Just to Get Married
, ;
Life
Hewson, Miss (Prestwich teacher),
Errant
, ;
Marriage as a Trade
, –
Hiley, D.F.P.:
Pedagogue Pie
,
Hancock, Caroline, –
Hill, Elizabeth,
Handl, Irene,
Hill, Octavia,
Harding, Esther: on single state, , Hillis, Marjorie:
Live Alone andLike
; on friendshipwith women,
It – A Guide for the Extra
, ; on lesbianism, ;
Woman
, , ,
satisfaction with life, ;
The
Hilton, Harold,
Way of All Women
, , –
Hoare, Dorothy
see
Navarro, Hardy, Gladys, –
Dorothy de
Hargeisa, British Somaliland,
Hodgkiss, Edward and Mary,
–
Hodgkiss, Louis: relations and
Harker, Cassy:
Call Me Matron
, marriage with Winifred Haward,
–
, –; background, –
Harrison, Beatrice,
Holland, Ruth:
The Lost
Harrison, Rosina (Rose):
xiii,
Generation
,
–, , , , ;
Rose:
Holmes, Beatrice Gordon (known
My Life in Service
, ,
as Gordon): business career,
Haslett, Dame Caroline, , ,
–, , , –;
–, ,
relations with Helen Boyle, ;
Haward, Winifred: background
on
The Well of Loneliness
, ; and education, –, ; resists
joins Soroptimists, ; on
teaching career, , ; single
success, ;
In Love with Life –
state, , –, , , , ,
A Pioneer Career Woman’s Story
, , ; changes appearance,
–
Index
Holmes, Verena,
International Federation of
Holtby, Winifred: at Oxford,