Singled Out (54 page)
Authors: Virginia Nicholson
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. ‘It would be a national disaster . . .’:
The Times
, April .
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. ‘Walter Gallichan . . .’:
The Great Unmarried
by Walter Gallichan.
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. ‘A. S. Neill . . .’:
The Problem Teacher
by A. S. Neill.
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. ‘A article . . .’: Quoted in
Women Teachers and Feminist Politics
–
by Alison Oram.
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. ‘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 .’: Miss Rignall’s unpublished autobiography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.
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. ‘Miss Hewson . . .’: From Mass Observation Archive, Day Surveys , Sussex University Library.
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. ‘Miss Dudley’s story . . .’: Letter to the author from John Edge, Burnley.
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. ‘author and documentary-maker . . .’: Author interview with Dr Goodfield, .
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. ‘Another woman . . .’: Letter to the author from Iris Graham, Birmingham.
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. ‘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
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. ‘When nineteen-year-old . . .’:
A Victorian Son – An Autobiography
by Stuart Cloete.
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. ‘One of them . . .’:
Yes, Matron
by Gladys M. Hardy.
Notes on Sources
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. ‘Mary Milne . . .’: Entry on Mary Milne in the
Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography
.
. Caring, Sharing . . .
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. ‘Nature did not construct . . .’:
Marriage and Morals
by Bertrand Russell.
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. ‘May Wedderburn Cannan . . .’:
Grey Ghosts and Voices
by May Wedderburn Cannan.
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. ‘The Oxford scholar . . .’:
Enid Starkie
by Joanna Richardson.
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. ‘Norah Elliott . . .’: Miss Elliott’s autobiographical notes are held in the collection of working-class autobiographies at Brunel University.
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. ‘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
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. ‘In Essex . . .’: Letter to the author from Mrs L. Bryan.
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. ‘Vera Brittain’s war . . .’:
Testament of Youth
by Vera Brittain.
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. ‘The novelist Irene Rathbone . . .’: From Lynn Knight’s introduction to the Virago edition of
We That Were Young
by Irene Rathbone.
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. ‘Ivy Compton-Burnett’s world . . .’:
Ivy When Young – The Early Life of
Ivy Compton-Burnett –
by Hilary Spurling.
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. ‘In her friendship . . .’:
A Singular Woman – The Life of Geraldine Aves
–
by Phyllis Willmott.
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. ‘Love could be expressed . . .’:
Myra Hess – A Portrait
by Marian C.
McKenna.
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. ‘If they ever . . .’: Entry on Elsie Waters in the
Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography
.
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. ‘Tess, Una and Carmen Dillon . . .’: Entries on Agnes (Una) Dillon and Carmen Dillon in the
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
.
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. ‘Florence White . . .’:
Biography of Florence White
(unpublished) by D. J. Prickett.
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. ‘Doris Smith . . .’: Author interview with Miss Smith, .
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. ‘Margaret Howes . . .’: Author interview with Miss Howes, .
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. ‘The novelist Phyllis Bentley . . .’:
O Dreams, O Destinations
by Phyllis Bentley.
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. ‘It was Angela . . .’:
It’s Only the Sister
by Angela du Maurier.
Singled Out
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. ‘The writer Elizabeth Goudge . . .’:
The Joy of the Snow
by Elizabeth Goudge.
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. ‘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
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. ‘Pretty Nell Naylor . . .’: Information supplied to the author by Andrew Stewart-Roberts.
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. ‘The children’s nurse . . .’: Author interview with Miss Wakeham, .
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. ‘Nanny Robertson . . .’: Case cited in
The Rise and Fall of the British
Nanny
by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
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. ‘Lady Astor’s personal maid . . .’:
Rose: My Life in Service
by Rosina Harrison.
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. ‘Joan Evans’s parents . . .’:
Prelude and Fugue – An Autobiography
by Joan Evans.
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. ‘D. H. Lawrence . . .’:
The Virgin and the Gipsy
by D. H. Lawrence.
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. ‘Marie Stopes’s books . . .’: The Marie Stopes archive is held at the Wellcome Institute Library, London.
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. ‘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.
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. ‘I think a woman . . .’: Interview with Irene Angell, ‘Out of the Dolls House’ archive, Women’s Library.
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. ‘Betty Milton . . .’: Case and statistics cited in
A Secret World of Sex –
Forbidden Fruit: The British Experience –
by Steve Humphries.
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. ‘Doreen Potts . . .’: Author interview with Miss Potts, .
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. ‘Beatrice Gordon Holmes . . .’:
In Love with Life
by Beatrice Gordon Holmes.
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. ‘Laura Hutton . . .’:
The Single Woman and Her Emotional Problems
by Laura Hutton.
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. ‘In the s . . .’:
Women’s Life and Labour
by F. Zweig.
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. ‘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
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. ‘In . . .’:
Mixed Memoirs
by Gertrude Caton-Thompson.
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. ‘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.
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. ‘Barbara Cartland . . .’:
The Isthmus Years
by Barbara Cartland.
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. ‘Eastbourne might seem . . .’: Author interview with Miss Cocker, .
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. ‘Straight after the war . . .’:
A Slender Reputation – An Autobiography
by Kathleen Hale.
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. ‘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.
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. ‘In . . .’:
Radclyffe Hall – A Woman called John
by Sally Cline.
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. ‘In . . .’: The Marie Stopes archive is held at the Wellcome Institute Library, London.
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. ‘The psychologist . . .’:
The Way of All Women
by Esther Harding.
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. ‘From the outset . . .’:
It’s Only the Sister
and
Old Maids Remember
by Angela du Maurier.
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. ‘Paul Fussell . . .’: Quoted in
The Generation of
by Robert Wohl.
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. ‘Alice Skillicorn . . .’: ‘Homoerotic Friendship and College Principals, –’ by Elizabeth Edwards, in
Women’s History Review
Vol. , No. , .
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. ‘The textile designers . . .’: Entries on Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher in the
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
.
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. ‘Another devoted partnership . . .’: Entry on Dr Helen Mackay in the
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
.
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. ‘Mary Renault . . .’:
Mary Renault – A Biography
by David Sweetman.
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. ‘The novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner’s . . .’:
Sylvia Townsend Warner
– Letters
, ed. William Maxwell.
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. ‘In . . .’:
A Woman Alone, in Kenya, Uganda and the Belgian
Congo
by Etta Close.
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. ‘Entomologist . . .’:
Time Well Spent
by Evelyn Cheesman.
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. ‘The Gamwell sisters . . .’:
An Adventurous Heart
, unpublished autobiography by Marion Gamwell, FANY archives.
Singled Out
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. ‘The London parlourmaid . . .’:
The Small Woman
by Alan Burgess.
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. ‘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 ’
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. ‘The anti-feminist . . .’:
Wasted Womanhood
by Charlotte Cowdroy.
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. ‘I find real pleasure . . .’:
Biography of Florence White
(unpublished) by D. J. Prickett.
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. ‘The stockbroker . . .’:
In Love with Life
by Beatrice Gordon Holmes.
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. ‘Women like Vera Brittain . . .’:
Testament of Youth
by Vera Brittain.
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. ‘Winifred Holtby . . .’:
The Clear Stream – A Life of Winifred Holtby
by Marion Shaw.
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. ‘Here is a single teacher . . .’: Quoted in
Women Teachers and Feminist
Politics –
by Alison Oram.
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. ‘Caroline Haslett . . .’:
Myself When Young – by Famous Women of Today
, ed. the Countess of Oxford and Asquith.
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. ‘For Phyllis Bentley . . .’:
O Dreams, O Destinations
by Phyllis Bentley.
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. ‘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.
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. ‘The children’s author . . .’:
Beyond the Vicarage
by Noe¨l Streatfeild.
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. ‘Angela du Maurier . . .’:
It’s Only the Sister
and
Old Maids Remember
by Angela du Maurier.
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. ‘Once you get over . . .’: Entry on Anne McAllister in the
Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography
.
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. ‘Winifred Holtby paid tribute . . .’:
Women and a Changing Civilization
by Winifred Holtby.
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. ‘Like Caroline Haslett . . .’:
The Englishwoman
and
Life Errant
by Cicely Hamilton.
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. ‘The writer Elizabeth Jenkins . . .’: Author interview with Miss Jenkins, .
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. ‘Just a few years . . .’:
Rose: My Life in Service
by Rosina Harrison.
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. ‘And yet Winifred Haward . . .’:
Two Lives
by Winifred Haward Hodgkiss.
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. ‘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
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. ‘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.
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. ‘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.
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. ‘In . . .’:
Universal Aunts
by Kate Herbert-Hunting.
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. ‘Nothing is impracticable . . .’:
Lolly Willowes
by Sylvia Townsend-Warner.
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. ‘The campaigner Florence White . . .’:
Biography of Florence White
(unpublished) by D. J. Prickett.
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. ‘One young woman . . .’:
The Isthmus Years
by Barbara Cartland.
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. ‘Women are accustomed . . .’
British Women in the Twentieth Century
by Elsie M. Lang.
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. ‘One lady . . .’: Correspondence and details supplied to the author by Miss Webster’s niece, Isabel Raphael.
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. ‘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).
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. ‘Today the organic . . .’:
The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries
, ed. H.