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Business and Professional

–; friendshipwith Vera

Women, 

Brittain, –, , , –;

Irons, Evelyn, 

background, ; relations with

Irvine, Miss (tea-taster), 

Harry Pearson, –, ; single

state, –, ; appearance, ;

Jackson, Polly, Rose and Martha,

friendshipwith Cicely



Hamilton, ; writings, , ,

Jaeger, Muriel, 

; refused unaccompanied

James, Henry, 

access to hotel, –; fictional

Jameson, Storm, 

heroines, ; character and

Jenkins, Elizabeth, , ,

appearance, ; death, , ,

–, , 

; and children, ; Vera

John, Augustus, 

Brittain praises, ; on

John, Gwen, , 

predicament of young women,

Jones, Gwyneth Wansbrough, ,

; on knowing ecstasy, ;

, 

denies failure in marriage,

Jones, May (Margaret):

–; sense of ageing, ; on

background,
xiii,
–, , ; happiness, ; ‘Are Spinsters

relations with Philip, –; and

Frustrated?’, n, –, ,

Philip’s absence and death on

;
The Crowded Street
, , ; active service, , , ; single

Poor Caroline
, –, ;
South
state, 

Riding
, , , 

Jourdain, Margaret, 

homosexuality, , –, –

hostels, –, 

Kenya, 

housework, –

Kilroy, Alix, 

Howes, Margaret, –

King, Viva, 

humanitarians, –

Kingsley, Mary, 

Hutton, Laura, , , , ;
The
Knight, Miss D.E., 

Single Woman andHer Emotional
Knight, Lynn, –

Problems
, , , –

Lang, Elsie M.:
British Women in the
Ibsen, Henrik, 

Twentieth Century
, –

Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The
Langley, Amy,
xiii,
–

(film), n

Larcher, Dorothy, 

Institution of Locomotive

Lawrence, D.H., , –;
The
Engineers, 

Fox
, 

International Alliance for Women’s

Lawrence, T.E., 

Suffrage, 

lawyers: women as, –



Index

Lehmann, Rosamond, , ;

Maclean, Gertrude, –

Invitation to the Waltz
, 

McNeill, Dorelia (Dorothy), 

Leighton, Roland, , –, ,

Madden, Monica, 

, , , 

magazines (women’s), –

Leitch, Cecil, 

Mann, Gertrude, 

lesbians: adopt male names, ;
see
Mann, Julia, 

also
homosexuality Mannin, Ethel, –, 

Leslie, Dr Murray, , , –,

marriage: age,
xi;
and social class, 

xiii;
expectations and Lessing, Doris:
Under My Skin
, 

preparations for, –, , ;

Lindsay, Olive, , 

examined and redefined, ;

Litchfield, Henrietta (
neé
Darwin; Darwin on, –; and women’s

‘Ettie’), , 

role, –, –; second, ;

Lloyd, Dorothy, 

advertising for, –

Lloyd George, David, n

Married Women’s Property Act

Lloyd George, Lady Megan, 

(), –

Lodge, Eleanor, 

Marryat, Mary (agony aunt), 

London Stock Exchange, ,

Marshall, Dorothy, 



Marshall, Sheina, 

loneliness, –, , –,

Martin, Lieutenant Will, –



Marx, Enid, 

Lorimer (buyer), 

Mason-MacFarlane family, –

Loughlin, Dame Anne, 

Mason-MacFarlane, Carlyon:

love: among women, –,

relations with Gertrude Caton-

–;
see also
homosexuality; Thompson, –, –; war

sex

service, –; killed in Egypt,

Lowther, ‘Toupie’, 

–, , –, 

Luck, Montagu, , 

Mason-MacFarlane, Dr David, 

Ludovici, Anthony M.:
Lysistrata,
Mason-MacFarlane, Mrs David,

or Woman’s Future andFuture
–

Woman
, –, –, 

Mason-MacFarlane, Noe¨l, 

masturbation, –

McAllister, Anne, 

Matheson, Hilda, 

MacArthur, Ellen, 

Matrimonial Post andFashionable
MacArthur, John:
Shall Flappers
Marriage Advertiser
, 

Rule?
, 

Matrimonial Times
, –

McCulloch, Nellie (Mrs Richard

matrons (hospital), –

Aldington), , –

Mayor, F.M., ;
The Rector’s
Mackay, Dr Helen, –

Daughter
, –

Mackinnon, Alice, 

mental illness, –

Index



Miall, Agnes:
The Bachelor Girl’s
Navarro, Dorothy de (
neé
Hoare),
Guide to Everything – or The Girl
, 

on her Own
, –

Navarro, Toty de, 

middle classes: women, 

Naylor, Nell, 

Miles, Margaret, 

Neill, A.S., 

Millard, Shirley, 

Neish, Rosalie: ‘How to Attract

Milne, Mary, –

Him’, 

Milton, Betty, 

Neville-Rolfe, Sybil:
Why Marry?
, Minack Theatre, Cornwall, 

–

Mistinguett (i.e. Jeanne Marie

New Women, –, , 

Bourgeois), 

New Zealand: emigration to and

mistresses, 

life in, , –, –

Mitford, Jessica, –

Nightingale, Florence, , 

Monroe, Jessie, –

NN, Miss, –

Moore, Doris Langley,
The
North, Marianne, , 

Technique of the Love Affair
(by ‘A Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth,

Gentlewoman’), –

Viscount, 

Morrison, Carrie, 

nursemaids
see
nannies and Mosley, Sir Oswald, 

nursemaids

motherhood: women’s desire for,

nursing, –, 

–, 

motor cars and motoring, 

office and clerical work, –,

Mullard, Julie, , 

–

Muriel (Winifred Haward’s friend),

Oldfield, Sybil, 



Olive (Mary Cocker’s friend),

–

Nairn, Miss, 

Olivier, Sir Laurence, 

Nally, Gwen, 

orgasm, 

nannies and nursemaids, –

Over Thirty Association, 

National Council of Women’s

Owen, Wilfred: ‘Dulce et

Emigration Committee, 

Decorum Est’, 

National Spinsters Pensions

Oxford University: women at,

Association, , , , ,

–, –, , 

, 

National Union of ShopAssistants,

Pankhurst, Christabel, , 



Pankhurst, Emmeline, –, 

National Union of Women

parents: care of, –

Teachers, 

Parliament: women admitted as

National Union of Women’s

members, –, 

Suffrage Societies, 

Partridge, Frances, , 



Index

Patch, Miss (of Essex), , 

Raverat, Gwen, 

Patmore, Brigit, , 

Rayne, Ethel (
neé
Perham), –

patriotism: and death, –

Rayne, Major (Margery Perham’s

Paul, Brenda Dean, 

brother-in-law), –

Pearson, Harry, –, , n

Read, Margaret, 

Pease, Miss (of Leeds),
xi-xii

Redcliffe, Miss L., 

pensions, , , –, ,

Reid, Nano, 

–, 

religion: fails to comfort war

Perham, Edgar, 

bereaved, 

Perham, Dame Margery, –,

Renault, Mary (i.e. Mary

–;
Josie Vine
, , 

Challans), n, , 

Perowne, Stewart, 

Representation of the People Act

Petrie, Sir Flinders, –

(), 

pets, –

Reynolds, Miss, 

Philip(May Jones’s boyfriend), –

Rhondda, Margaret Haig,

Pilkington, Margaret, 

Viscountess, 

Plummer, Hyacinth, 

Rickards, Dr Esther, 

Plunkett, Eileen, 

Rignall, Elizabeth (Lizzie),
xiii,

politics: women in, –

–, 

Pollens, Bertram, 

Rinder, Olive, 

Pope, Jessie: ‘War Girls’, 

Roberts, Miss (of Liverpool), 

‘Poppy’ and ‘Honey’, 

Roberts, Robert, 

Potter, Frank, 

Robertson, Muriel, 

Potter, Maggie, 

Robertson, Nanny (with Eyre

Potts, Doreen, –, , –

family), 

Power, Rhoda, 

Robson, Dame Flora, 

Pretyman, General Sir George, 

Royal Society, 

Priestley, J.B., 

Royden, Maude: preaching, , ;

Prior, Miss (of Essex), , 

speaks for single women, ; on

professions: barriers to women

sublimation of sexual impulse,

removed, –

; on attachment to pets, ;

Punch
(magazine), , , , 

on love, –, ;

campaigning and appeals, –;

Quinell, Sue, 

Sex andCommonsense
, 

Russell, Bertrand, 

Rathbone, Irene, , ,

Russell, Dr Dorothy, 

–, ;
October
, ;
They
Russell-Smith, Enid, 

Call It Peace
, ;
Was There a
Summer?
, –, ;
We That
Sackville-West, Edward, 

Were Young
, , , 

Sackville-West, Vita, 

Index



Salter, Arthur, –

Spark, Muriel:
The Prime of Miss
Sapphism
see
homosexuality
Jean Brodie
, –, , , 

Sayers, Dorothy L., 

Speed, Doris, 

Scharlieb, Dame Mary, , , ;

Spicer, Eulalie, 

The Bachelor Woman andHer
spinsters and spinsterhood: and

Problems
, –, 

post-war ‘Lost Generation’,
xi-

schoolmistresses
see
teaching
xiv;
popular image of, –, Schreiner, Olive, 

–; in literature, –, –,

science: women in, –

, –; emotional and

Seear, Nancy, 

personal situation, –, ;

Seil, island of (Scotland), 

social position, –; pensions,

Sergeant, Dorothy, 

, , –, , –,

servants (domestic), –, –

; as conscious choice, ;

sex: and free love, –, , ;

solitary living, –, ,

social attitudes to, , –;

–, ; insurance benefits

and single women, –, ,

and financial help, ; and sex,

–;
see also
homosexuality –; and self-sacrifice, ;

Sex Discrimination Act (), 

and new freedom, –; clubs

Sex Disqualification Removal Act

and organisations, –;

(), 

finding happiness, –;

Sharp, Dame Evelyn, 

reassessed, ;
see also
bachelor Shaw, George Bernard, , 

girl

Sheldon, Derbyshire, 

spiritualism, 

shopwork, –

Spiritualists’ National Union, 

sisters, –

sport, –

Sitwell, Dame Edith, 

Spring Rice, Margery:
Working-Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 

Class Wives: Their Health and
Six Point Group, 

Conditions
, 

Skillicorn, Alice, 

Stack, Mollie, 

Skrine, Marjorie, –

Stark, Flora, 

Smieton, Dame Mary, 

Stark, Freya:
Traveller’s Prelude
, Smith, Doris, 



Smith, Harriet, 

Starkie, Enid, , , –

Snowball, Betty, 

Stead, Christina:
For Love Alone
, Society for the Propagation of the

–

Gospel, 

Stephens, Leslie, 

Soil Association, 

Stephenson, Hamilton, 

Somaliland, –

Stephenson, Isie Russell, 

Somme, Battle of the (), , 

Stephenson, Marjory, 

Soroptimist Clubs, 

Stevenson, Sylvia:
Surplus
, –



Index

Stopes, Marie: and sexual openness,

Underwood, Florence, 

; advice on adoption by single

Universal Aunts, –

women, ; Elizabeth Goudge

universities: women dons, –

and, ; on unmarried women

upper classes: women, –

and sex, –; and lesbianism,

Uranianism
see
homosexuality –, ;
MarriedLove
, 

Streatfeild, Noe¨l, , , 

Vachell, Horace Annesley, &n

suffragettes, , –, –

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