Women's Fiction of the Second World War

Gill Plain is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews. She has published extensively on twentieth-century popular culture, crime fiction, gender, sexuality and the writing of the two world wars. Her previous books include John Mills and British Cinema (2006), Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender, Sexuality and the Body (2001), and Women’s Fiction of the Second World War (1996).

• Introduction - "business as usual", "making sense", engendering war. Part 1 Prelude to war - introduction; Dorothy L. Sayers; Stevie Smith; Virginia Woolf ("The Years"). Part 2 Weathering the storm - introduction; Virginia Woolf ("Between the Acts"); Naomi Mitchison; Elizabeth Bowen.