Women's Writing of the First World War

Emma Liggins is a Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is the author of Odd Women? Spinsters, Widows and Lesbians in British Women’s Fiction, 1850s-1930s (2014) and a chapter on May Sinclair and women’s war work in May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds, eds. Rebecca Bowler and Claire Drewery (2016).Elizabeth Nolan is a Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Her publications include ‘American Women’s Writing of the First World War’ in Literature Compass (2007), ‘The Awakening as Literary Innovation: Chopin, Maupassant and the Evolution of Genre’ in The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin (2008) and ‘The Woman’s Novel Beyond Sentimentalism’ in The Cambridge History of the American Novel (2011).

• Introduction 1. Outsider Positions: Negotiating Gender, Nationality and Memory in the War Writing of Enid Bagnold 2. Queering the Home Front: Subversive Temporalities and Sexualities in Rose Allatini’s Despised and Rejected and Bryher’s Two Selves 3. Women’s Poetry in First World War Anthologies and Two Collections of 1916 4. "The Cataclysm We All Remember": Haunting and Spectral Trauma in the First World War Supernatural Stories of H. D. Everett 5. "I had a Baby, I Mean I didn’t, in an Air Raid": War and Stillbirth in H. D.’s Asphodel 6. The Responsibility of Women: Women’s Anti-War Writing in the Press, 1914–16 7. A Lack of Engagement? The Containment of War in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Forerunner 8. Women and the "War Machine" in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes