Wave Me Goodbye and Hearts Undefeated - Women's Writing of the Second World War : Stories of the Second World War

Anne Boston

ISBN 10: 1844080315 / ISBN 13: 9781844080311

Published by Virago, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wave Me Goodbye and Hearts Undefeated - Women's Writing of the Second World War : Stories of the Second World War
• Publisher: Virago
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844080315
• ISBN 13: 9781844080311
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 4.1W x 10.8H x 17.9D centimeters 4.1 centimeters width by 10.8 centimeters height by 17.9 centimeters depth
• Weight: 322 grams

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Synopsis

An invaluable omnibus that brings together women as diverse as Barbara Cartland, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, a Soho street-sweeper and an air-raid warden. Containing fiction and non- fiction from some of the most well-known writers of the twentieth century, as well as those who had never written before, this fascinating collection opens a window on to a hidden landscape of war.

From the Publisher

ŒWish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbyeš went the jaunty wartime song, and that was what the brave-faced women did as they bid their men farewell. This collection of short stories, written by women when war was a way of life, includes some of the finest British writers of that generation: Rosamond Lehmann, Elizabeth Bowen, Doris Lessing, Rose Macaulay, Stevie Smith, and Elizabeth Taylor. War has traditionally been seen as a masculine occupation, but these stories show how women were, in a sense, equal participants. They reveal hardship, isolation, and deprivation. By turn comical, stoical, compassionate, angry, and subversive, these intensely individual voices bring a human dimension to the momentous events that reverberated around them, and each opens a window on to a hidden landscape of war.