Table of Contents:
  • Mrs. Humphrey Ward and the first casualty of war / Helen Small
  • Payments and face values: Edith Wharton's A son at the front / Mary Conde
  • 'Contagious ecstasy': May Sinclair's war journals / Suzanne Raitt
  • 'A great purifier': the Great War in women's romances and memoirs 1914-1918 / Jane Potter
  • Dissidence of Vernon Lee: Satan the waster and the will to believe / Gillian Beer
  • Grotesque and the Great War in To the lighthouse / Tracy Hargreaves
  • 'It goes on happening': Frances Bellerby and the Great War / Nathalie Blondel
  • 'Still some obstinate emotion remains': Radclyffe Hall and the meanings of service / Claire Buck
  • Flies and violets in Katherine Mansfield / Con Coroneos
  • Mary Butts, mothers, and war / Mary Hamer
  • HD's war neurotics / Trudi Tate
  • Gertrude Stein and war / Elizabeth Gregory.