Women’s Writing of the First World War. An Anthology. Ed. Angela K. Smith.

• Joanna Montgomery Byles

The women writers of World War One are important recorders of women’s historical experience, and they give us invaluable insight into women’s lives and their reactions and feelings in those momentous times. The war made a tremendous impact upon women, politically, socially and psychologically; causing profound changes in women’s selfimage. The war influenced every aspect of women’s lives and provided all classes of women with important opportunities to work outside the home. The impressive achievements of women doctors and nurses, of women police and other service auxiliaries, of former domestic servants in factories, eventually had an enormous influence on public opinion in favour of women’s suffrage.

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