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page 
. ‘It would be a national disaster . . .’:
The Times
,  April .

page 
. ‘Walter Gallichan . . .’:
The Great Unmarried
by Walter Gallichan.

page 
. ‘A. S. Neill . . .’:
The Problem Teacher
by A. S. Neill.

page 
. ‘A  article . . .’: Quoted in
Women Teachers and Feminist Politics
–
by Alison Oram.

pages –
. ‘The sad case of Elizabeth Rignall . . .’: Miss Rignall’s unpublished autobiography
All So Long Ago
is held in the collection of working-class autobiographies at Brunel University.

page 
. ‘Miss Hewson . . .’: From Mass Observation Archive, Day Surveys , Sussex University Library.

page 
. ‘Miss Dudley’s story . . .’: Letter to the author from John Edge, Burnley.

page 
. ‘author and documentary-maker . . .’: Author interview with Dr Goodfield, .

page 
. ‘Another woman . . .’: Letter to the author from Iris Graham, Birmingham.

page 
. ‘Miss Lilian Faithfull . . .’:
In the House of My Pilgrimage
by Lilian Faithfull.

m i s s a l l - a l o n e o n t h e w a r d s

pages –
. ‘When nineteen-year-old . . .’:
A Victorian Son – An Autobiography
by Stuart Cloete.

page 
. ‘One of them . . .’:
Yes, Matron
by Gladys M. Hardy.

Notes on Sources



pages –
. ‘Mary Milne . . .’: Entry on Mary Milne in the
Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography
.

. Caring, Sharing . . .

l o n e l y d a y s

page 
. ‘Nature did not construct . . .’:
Marriage and Morals
by Bertrand Russell.

page 
. ‘May Wedderburn Cannan . . .’:
Grey Ghosts and Voices
by May Wedderburn Cannan.

page 
. ‘The Oxford scholar . . .’:
Enid Starkie
by Joanna Richardson.

page 
. ‘Norah Elliott . . .’: Miss Elliott’s autobiographical notes are held in the collection of working-class autobiographies at Brunel University.

pages –
. ‘Another teacher . . .’: Diaries by Ethel Wragg and Harriet Warrack, Mass Observation Archive, Day Surveys , held in Sussex University Library.

c o m p a n i o n s , c o n s o l a t i o n s

page 
. ‘In Essex . . .’: Letter to the author from Mrs L. Bryan.

page 
. ‘Vera Brittain’s war . . .’:
Testament of Youth
by Vera Brittain.

page 
. ‘The novelist Irene Rathbone . . .’: From Lynn Knight’s introduction to the Virago edition of
We That Were Young
by Irene Rathbone.

page 
. ‘Ivy Compton-Burnett’s world . . .’:
Ivy When Young – The Early Life of
Ivy Compton-Burnett –
by Hilary Spurling.

page 
. ‘In her friendship . . .’:
A Singular Woman – The Life of Geraldine Aves
–
by Phyllis Willmott.

page 
. ‘Love could be expressed . . .’:
Myra Hess – A Portrait
by Marian C.

McKenna.

page 
. ‘If they ever . . .’: Entry on Elsie Waters in the
Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography
.

pages –
. ‘Tess, Una and Carmen Dillon . . .’: Entries on Agnes (Una) Dillon and Carmen Dillon in the
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
.

pages –
. ‘Florence White . . .’:
Biography of Florence White
(unpublished) by D. J. Prickett.

page 
. ‘Doris Smith . . .’: Author interview with Miss Smith, .

page 
. ‘Margaret Howes . . .’: Author interview with Miss Howes, .

pages –
. ‘The novelist Phyllis Bentley . . .’:
O Dreams, O Destinations
by Phyllis Bentley.

page 
. ‘It was Angela . . .’:
It’s Only the Sister
by Angela du Maurier.



Singled Out

pages –
. ‘The writer Elizabeth Goudge . . .’:
The Joy of the Snow
by Elizabeth Goudge.

pages –
. ‘Cicely Hamilton . . .’:
Life Errant
by Cicely Hamilton.

o t h e r p e o p l e ’ s b a b i e s

pages –
. ‘Pretty Nell Naylor . . .’: Information supplied to the author by Andrew Stewart-Roberts.

page 
. ‘The children’s nurse . . .’: Author interview with Miss Wakeham, .

page 
. ‘Nanny Robertson . . .’: Case cited in
The Rise and Fall of the British
Nanny
by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.

page 
. ‘Lady Astor’s personal maid . . .’:
Rose: My Life in Service
by Rosina Harrison.

page 
. ‘Joan Evans’s parents . . .’:
Prelude and Fugue – An Autobiography
by Joan Evans.

l o n e l y n i g h t s

page 
. ‘D. H. Lawrence . . .’:
The Virgin and the Gipsy
by D. H. Lawrence.

pages –
. ‘Marie Stopes’s books . . .’: The Marie Stopes archive is held at the Wellcome Institute Library, London.

pages –
. ‘A psychological study . . .’: ‘The Single Woman – A Medical Study in Sex Education’ by Robert L. Dickinson and Lura Beam, in
Women and Children
First
, ed. D. J. and S. M. Rothman.

page 
. ‘I think a woman . . .’: Interview with Irene Angell, ‘Out of the Dolls House’ archive, Women’s Library.

page 
. ‘Betty Milton . . .’: Case and statistics cited in
A Secret World of Sex –
Forbidden Fruit: The British Experience –
by Steve Humphries.

t h e b l e s s e d f a c t o f l o v i n g

page 
. ‘Doreen Potts . . .’: Author interview with Miss Potts, .

page 
. ‘Beatrice Gordon Holmes . . .’:
In Love with Life
by Beatrice Gordon Holmes.

page 
. ‘Laura Hutton . . .’:
The Single Woman and Her Emotional Problems
by Laura Hutton.

page 
. ‘In the s . . .’:
Women’s Life and Labour
by F. Zweig.

pages –
. ‘And so would Maude Royden . . .’:
Women, the World and the Home
, sermon preached by Maude Royden quoted in
Women Against the Iron Fist
by Sybil Oldfield.

Notes on Sources



. A Grand Feeling

a c a u s e , a p u r p o s e a n d a p a s s i o n

pages –
. ‘In  . . .’:
Mixed Memoirs
by Gertrude Caton-Thompson.

page 
. ‘When a soldier . . .’: Quoted in
How We Lived Then – – –
A Sketch of Social and Domestic Life in England during the War
by Mrs C. S. Peel.

page 
. ‘Barbara Cartland . . .’:
The Isthmus Years
by Barbara Cartland.

pages –
. ‘Eastbourne might seem . . .’: Author interview with Miss Cocker, .

pages –
. ‘Straight after the war . . .’:
A Slender Reputation – An Autobiography
by Kathleen Hale.

pages –
. ‘The writer Irene Rathbone . . .’: ‘Irene Rathbone: The Great War and Its Aftermath’, essay by Caroline Zilboorg in
Re-charting the Thirties
, ed.

Patrick Quinn; also the introductory essay to
We That Were Young
by Lynn Knight.

t h e w e l l

page 
. ‘In  . . .’:
Radclyffe Hall – A Woman called John
by Sally Cline.

page 
. ‘In  . . .’: The Marie Stopes archive is held at the Wellcome Institute Library, London.

page 
. ‘The psychologist . . .’:
The Way of All Women
by Esther Harding.

page 
. ‘From the outset . . .’:
It’s Only the Sister
and
Old Maids Remember
by Angela du Maurier.

page 
. ‘Paul Fussell . . .’: Quoted in
The Generation of 
by Robert Wohl.

page 
. ‘Alice Skillicorn . . .’: ‘Homoerotic Friendship and College Principals, –’ by Elizabeth Edwards, in
Women’s History Review
Vol. , No. , .

page 
. ‘The textile designers . . .’: Entries on Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher in the
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
.

page 
. ‘Another devoted partnership . . .’: Entry on Dr Helen Mackay in the
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
.

page 
. ‘Mary Renault . . .’:
Mary Renault – A Biography
by David Sweetman.

page 
. ‘The novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner’s . . .’:
Sylvia Townsend Warner
– Letters
, ed. William Maxwell.

t h e u r g e

pages –
. ‘In  . . .’:
A Woman Alone, in Kenya, Uganda and the Belgian
Congo
by Etta Close.

page 
. ‘Entomologist . . .’:
Time Well Spent
by Evelyn Cheesman.

page 
. ‘The Gamwell sisters . . .’:
An Adventurous Heart
, unpublished autobiography by Marion Gamwell, FANY archives.



Singled Out

page 
. ‘The London parlourmaid . . .’:
The Small Woman
by Alan Burgess.

pages –
. ‘At the age of seventy-seven . . .’:
African Apprenticeship – An Autobiographical Journey in Southern Africa 
by Margery Perham.

f i n d i n g h a p p i n e s s a s a ‘ b a c h ’

page 
. ‘The anti-feminist . . .’:
Wasted Womanhood
by Charlotte Cowdroy.

page 
. ‘I find real pleasure . . .’:
Biography of Florence White
(unpublished) by D. J. Prickett.

page 
. ‘The stockbroker . . .’:
In Love with Life
by Beatrice Gordon Holmes.

page 
. ‘Women like Vera Brittain . . .’:
Testament of Youth
by Vera Brittain.

page 
. ‘Winifred Holtby . . .’:
The Clear Stream – A Life of Winifred Holtby
by Marion Shaw.

page 
. ‘Here is a single teacher . . .’: Quoted in
Women Teachers and Feminist
Politics –
by Alison Oram.

page 
. ‘Caroline Haslett . . .’:
Myself When Young – by Famous Women of Today
, ed. the Countess of Oxford and Asquith.

page 
. ‘For Phyllis Bentley . . .’:
O Dreams, O Destinations
by Phyllis Bentley.

page 
. ‘Even Winifred Holtby . . .’: ‘The Best of Life’, in
Testament of a
Generation – The Journalism of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
, ed. Paul Berry and Alan Bishop.

page 
. ‘The children’s author . . .’:
Beyond the Vicarage
by Noe¨l Streatfeild.

page 
. ‘Angela du Maurier . . .’:
It’s Only the Sister
and
Old Maids Remember
by Angela du Maurier.

page 
. ‘Once you get over . . .’: Entry on Anne McAllister in the
Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography
.

page 
. ‘Winifred Holtby paid tribute . . .’:
Women and a Changing Civilization
by Winifred Holtby.

page 
. ‘Like Caroline Haslett . . .’:
The Englishwoman
and
Life Errant
by Cicely Hamilton.

page 
. ‘The writer Elizabeth Jenkins . . .’: Author interview with Miss Jenkins, .

page 
. ‘Just a few years . . .’:
Rose: My Life in Service
by Rosina Harrison.

s u r v i v i n g t h e n i g h t

pages –
. ‘And yet Winifred Haward . . .’:
Two Lives
by Winifred Haward Hodgkiss.

pages –
. ‘As a coda . . .’: Amy Langley’s unpublished autobiography is held in the collection of working-class autobiographies at Brunel University.

Notes on Sources



. The Magnificent Regiment of Women

t h e c h a l l e n g e o f l o s s

pages –
. ‘Two years after . . .’:
Women, the World and the Home
, sermon preached by Maude Royden quoted in
Women Against the Iron Fist
by Sybil Oldfield, and
Sex and Commonsense
by Maude Royden.

page 
. ‘Nobody, nothing . . .’: Quoted in ‘War, Death and Mourning in Modern Britain’ by David Cannadine, in
Mirrors of Mortality – Studies in the Social
History of Death
, ed. Joachim Whaley.

pages –
. ‘In  . . .’:
Universal Aunts
by Kate Herbert-Hunting.

w e a r e n o t d o w n h e a r t e d

page 
. ‘Nothing is impracticable . . .’:
Lolly Willowes
by Sylvia Townsend-Warner.

pages –
. ‘The campaigner Florence White . . .’:
Biography of Florence White
(unpublished) by D. J. Prickett.

page 
. ‘One young woman . . .’:
The Isthmus Years
by Barbara Cartland.

page 
. ‘Women are accustomed . . .’
British Women in the Twentieth Century
by Elsie M. Lang.

pages –
. ‘One lady . . .’: Correspondence and details supplied to the author by Miss Webster’s niece, Isabel Raphael.

d o i n g t h i n g s t h a t m a t t e r

pages –
. ‘Mrs Pankhurst’s followers . . .’:
Myself When Young – by Famous
Women of Today
, ed. the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, and
The Doors of
Opportunity – A Biography
by Rosalind Messenger (sister of Caroline Haslett).

page 
. ‘Today the organic . . .’:
The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries
, ed. H.

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