Not So Quiet...: Stepdaughters of War
This story offers a rare, funny, bitter, feminist look at war from women actively engaged in it. Published in London in 1930, Not So Quiet...(on the Western Front) is a novel in autobiographical guise that describes a group of British women ambulance drivers on the French front lines during World...
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This story offers a rare, funny, bitter, feminist look at war from women actively engaged in it. Published in London in 1930, Not So Quiet...(on the Western Front) is a novel in autobiographical guise that describes a group of British women ambulance drivers on the French front lines during World War 1. As Voluntary Aid Detachment workers, the women pay for the privilege of driving the wounded through shell fire in the freezing cold, on no sleep and an inedible diet, under the watchful eye of their punishing commandant, nicknamed Mrs. Bitch.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780935312829 (093531282X)
Publish date: 1993-01-01
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
Literature,
Read For School,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
War,
Feminism,
College,
Fiction,
Historical
Not So Quiet... was one WW1 novel that I had not heard of until a couple of weeks ago but that will now remain on my shelves for quite a while. The book was written in 1930 novel by Evadne Price. She used the pseudonym "Helen Zenna Smith", and given that the narrator's name is Smith, or "Smithy", al...
""It is such fun out here, and of course I'm loving every minute of it"... tell them that all the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears... and they will reply on pale mauve deckle-edged paper calling you a silly hysterical little girl." These are the thoughts of H...
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