page 94. ‘Elizabeth Bowen emerged …’: from Elizabeth Bowen, ‘London, 1940’, in Collected Impressions.
pages 95–6. ‘Hilde Marchant, a journalist …’: Marchant, Women and Children Last.
page 96. ‘A woman working as a driver …’: cited in Sheridan, ed., Wartime-Women.
page 96: ‘Sheila Hails was coming home …’: SH-J/A.
pages 96–7. ‘A nurse who survived …’: cited by Taylor, Heroines of World War II.
page 97. ‘Mass Observation interviewed …’: cited in Harrisson, Living though the Blitz.
page 97. ‘As Barbara Cartland said …’: BC/YO.
pages 98–9. ‘twenty-four-year-old Anne Popham …’: AP/PP.
page 99. ‘We all had miserable days …’: KW/A.
page 99. ‘We were much more accepting …’: JT/A.
page 99. ‘You just go on with your life …’: TR/A.
page 99. ‘You just grin and bear it …’: author interview with Vera Roberts, 2008.
page 100. ‘In Coventry and Warwickshire …’: Taylor, Heroines of World War II.
pages 100–101. ‘Joan Kelsall still lives …’: JK/A.
page 101. ‘Alma Merritt and her family …’: letter from Mrs Merritt to the author.
page 101. ‘Joyce Hoffman’s family …’: letter from Mrs Hoffman to the author.
pages 101–2. ‘The Wall family …’: letter from Phillip Wall to the author.
page 102. ‘Clara Milburn arose …’: CM/MM.
page 102. ‘like old sheets …’: in Angela Hewins, Mary, after the Queen.
page 102. ‘I coped by getting angry …’: JK/A.
page 102. ‘Cora Styles was sixteen …’: CW/A.
page 102. ‘Marguerite Patten reserves …’: MP/A.
pages 102–3. ‘Mrs Milburn went out …’: CM/MM.
pages 103–4. ‘Joan Wyndham had fallen …’: JW/LB.
page 104. ‘Mary Wesley’s wartime …’: see Patrick Marnham, Wild Mary: The Life of Mary Wesley.
page 104. ‘Phyllis Noble noticed …’: PW/CAW.
pages 104–5. ‘In the London underground …’: Harrisson, Living though the Blitz.
page 105. ‘I had seen a couple …’: FF/CHELSEA.
Chapter 4: ‘Ready to Win the War’
pages 106–7. ‘In the summer of 1941 …’: author interview with Kaye Bastin, née Emery, 2008.
page 108. ‘Pip Beck joined the ARP …’: PB/PP.
page 109. ‘Mass Observation offered the case-history …’: Harrisson, Living through the Blitz.
page 109. ‘Sometimes it is the small …’: HF/L’POOL.
page 109. ‘Barbara Cartland put in a plea … ’: BC/YO.
pages 109–10. ‘Nella Last reached …’: NL/NLW.
pages 110–11. ‘Frances Faviell …’: FF/CHELSEA; interview with Mrs Pamela Hanbury.
page 111. ‘Nella Last’s reflections …’: NL/NLW.
page 113. ‘We all feel very strongly …’: Daily Sketch, 21 March 1941.
page 113. ‘The Labour Party conference …’: The Times, 15 April 1941.
page 113. ‘The army had a sleazy reputation …’: see Noakes, Women in the British Army.
page 114. ‘In the end …’: Mary Grieve, Millions Made My Story.
page 115. ‘Edith Summerskill …’: from ‘Conscription and Women’, in The Fortnightly, March 1942.
page 115. ‘Most of us felt …’: FF/CHELSEA.
page 115. ‘For a housewife …’: cited in Penny Summerfield, Women Workers in the Second World War: Production and Patriarchy in Conflict.
page 115. ‘Monica Littleboy’s experience …’: MS/MEM.
pages 115–16. ‘Mrs M. in the Midlands …’: cited in Townsend and Townsend, War Wives.
page 116. ‘Young women like Phyllis Noble …’: PW/CAW; PW/CAA.
pages 117–20. ‘One of these young women …’: DB/GIRLS.
pages 120–23. ‘Doris, a sunny-tempered …’: DW/DV.
pages 123–7. ‘Twenty-one-year-old Mavis Lever …’: MB/A; The Bletchley Park War Diaries July 1939–August 1945. See also www.royalnavy.mod.uk/history/battles/.
pages 127–9. ‘After her narrow escape …’: LK/MD.
pages 130–33. ‘For her part …’: DW/DV.
page 131: ‘A frequent wartime catastrophe …’; Tottenham Court Road: BBC/PW, article ID: A2429561; Sheffield: see Edie Rutherford in Koa Wing, ed., Our Longest Days; Truro: Charmian Martin’s war memories at www.thisiscornwall.co.uk; Cairo: see Grenfell, The Time of My Life.
page 131: ‘No man wants to come home …’: see Waller and Vaughan-Rees, Women in Wartime.
page 132. ‘When Doffy Brewer left home …’: DB/GIRLS.
pages 132–3. ‘Barbara Cartland …’: BC/YO.
page 133. ‘One ATS officer …’: cited in de Courcy, Debs at War.
page 133. ‘Jenny Nicholson, the author …’: Jenny Nicholson, Kiss the Girls Goodbye.
page 134. ‘every troop locker …’: see John Costello, Love, Sex and War 1939–1945.
page 134. ‘thereby ruining …’: MP-D/NY.
page 135. ‘clothes-conscious Madeleine Henrey …’: MH/LONDON.
page 135. ‘It’s getting easy …’: NL/NLW.
pages 135–6. ‘Phyllis Noble’s job …’: PW/CAW.
pages 136–8. ‘For Helen Forrester …’: HF/LIME.
page 138. ‘As one woman said …’: cited in Longmate, How We Lived Then.
pages 138–9. ‘Newlywed Kaye Bastin …’: author interview with Kaye Bastin, née Emery, 2008.
page 139. ‘There was Mrs Louis …’: cited in May Rainer, Emma’s Daughter; this unpublished memoir is held in the collection of working-class autobiographies at Brunel University.
pages 139–40. ‘There was Elizabeth Jane Howard …’: EJH/A; EJH/S.
page 140. ‘Margaret Perry …’: Margaret Perry’s untitled memoir is held in the collection of working-class autobiographies at Brunel University.
pages 140–41. ‘Barbara Cartland worked …’: BC/YO.
Chapter 5: ‘Your Country Welcomes Your Services’
pages 142–3. ‘At Ham Spray House …’: FP/PW.
page 144. ‘Christian Oldham, the convent-educated …’: CL/A; CL/HAT.
page 145. ‘An ATS recruit recalled …’: Sylvia Mundahl Harris, The View from the Cookhouse Floor.
page 145. ‘The knickers were long-legged …’: FM/A; JT/A.
page 145. ‘Just imagine …’: cited in Vera Lynn with Robin Cross and Jenny de Gex, Unsung Heroines: The Women Who Won the War.
page 146. ‘A dazzling Wren …’: see The Wartime Scrapbook: On the Home Front 1939 to 1945, compiled by Robert Opie.
page 146. ‘Clara Milburn and her husband …’: CM/MM.
page 146. ‘The Daily Mail invited readers …’: cited in Cooper, Trumpets from the Steep.
page 146. ‘Vera Roberts trained …’: author interview with Vera Roberts, 2008.
pages 146–7. ‘she would immediately stride …’: cited in Nicholson, Kiss the Girls Goodbye.
page 147. ‘It still wasn’t …’: see M-O Bulletin on Women in Public Houses, in Sheridan, ed., Wartime Women.
page 147. ‘Those ATS girls …’: cited in Hylton, Their Darkest Hour.
page 147. ‘nothing but a league …’: see Noakes, Women in the British Army.
page 147. ‘officers’ groundsheets …’: examples given in Hylton, Their Darkest Hour.
page 148. ‘In her account …’: Hilary Wayne, Two Odd Soldiers.
page 148. ‘I never had any trouble …’: cited in de Courcy, Debs at War.
page 148. ‘Eileen Rouse came back …’: author interview with Eileen Morgan, née Rouse, 2008.
page 148. ‘For Pat Bawland …’: author interview with Pat Evans, née Bawland, 2008.
page 149. ‘Flo Mahony’s feelings …’: FM/A.
pages 149–52. ‘Twenty-year-old Jean McFadyen …’: JP/A.
pages 152–3 ‘Kay Mellis was ano
ther …’: KW/A.
page 153. ‘Another propagandising …’: Vita Sackville-West, The Women’s Land Army.
pages 153–4. ‘Shirley Joseph described …’: Shirley Joseph, If Their Mothers Only Knew: An Unofficial Account of Life in the Women’s Land Army.
page 154. ‘Monica Littleboy held out …’: MS/MEM.
page 154. ‘Mary Fedden chose …’: from Nicholson, ed., What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?
page 155. ‘Patience Chadwyck-Healey would …’: PC-H/A.
pages 155–6. ‘Christian Oldham in the Wrens …’: CL/HAT.
page 156. ‘For Audrey Johnson …’: cited in CL/HAT.
page 157. ‘evacuated from Ilford …’: NB/TIME.
page 157. ‘WAAF Flo Mahony …’: FM/A.
page 158. ‘Mavis Lever was well aware …’: MB/A.
page 158. ‘Patience Chadwyck-Healey couldn’t bear …’: PC-H/A.
page 158. ‘And according to Joan Wyndham …’: JW/LB.
page 158. ‘Ex-debutante Wren …’: de Courcy, Debs at War.
page 158. ‘When Barbara Pym …’: Pym, A Very Private Eye.
page 158. ‘I was used to dear …’: de Courcy, Debs at War.
page 158. ‘One well-educated Wren …’: private information.
pages 159–63. ‘The story of Christian Oldham’s life …’: CL/A; CL/HAT.
pages 163–9. ‘Eighteen-year-old Pip Beck …’: PB/PP; PB/WAAF.
page 167 ‘Not a Cloud in the Sky …’: lyrics taken from version written and composed by Tommie Connor and Eddie Lisbona.
page 170. ‘Frances Partridge’s small corner …’: FP/PW.
pages 170–71. ‘Sheila Hails was born …’: SH-J/A.
pages 171–2. ‘Not all female conscientious objectors …’: see Denis Hayes, Challenge of Conscience.
page 172. ‘the artist Mary Fedden …’: Nicholson, ed., What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?
page 173. ‘Cliff seems …’: NL/NLW.
page 173. ‘Three years today …’: CM/MM.
pages 173–5. ‘Anne Popham’s lover …’: AP/A; AP/PP.
Chapter 6: The Girl That Makes the Thing-ummy Bob
page 176. ‘250,000 20–21-year-olds …’: taken from The Daily Sketch, 1942.
page 176. ‘A convocation of …’: cited in Grieve, Millions Made My Story.
page 177. ‘Rage stirred …’: see Edith Olivier, Night Thoughts of a Country Landlady.
pages 177–8. ‘But in Barrow-in-Furness …’: NL/NLW.
page 178. ‘Vere Hodgson …’: Vere Hodgson, Few Eggs and No Oranges: The Diaries of Vere Hodgson 1940–45.
page 178. ‘one WAAF to put on two stone …’: JT/A.
page 178. ‘a nutritious picnic treat …’: The Good Housekeeping Book of Thrifty War-Time Recipes (approved by the Ministry of Food).
page 178. ‘Woman’s Own gave recipes …’: Woman’s Own, 1943.
page 178. ‘The Daily Express …’: see The Wartime Scrapbook.
pages 178–9. ‘Nella Last was proud …’: NL/NLW.
page 179. ‘the Advice Division …’: newspaper cutting cited in Bette Anderson, We Just Got on with It – British Women in World War II.
page 179. ‘Try cooking cabbage …’: The Wartime Scrapbook.
pages 179–80. ‘In 1942 the home economist …’: MP/A.
pages 180–81. ‘We never went without …’: FM/A.
page 181. ‘Eileen Rouse says …’: author interview with Eileen Morgan, née Rouse, 2008.
pages 181–4. ‘One of these was Zelma Katin …’: Zelma Katin, Clippie: The Autobiography of a War Time Conductress.
page 184. ‘Mrs Milburn marvelled …’: CM/MM.
pages 184–5. ‘the writer Amabel Williams-Ellis …’: Amabel Williams-Ellis, Women in War Factories.
pages 186–7. ‘Until 1942 Thelma Ryder lived …’: TR/A.
page 187. ‘Emily Jones’s face …’: Margaretta Jolly, ed., Dear Laughing Motorbyke: Letters from Women Welders of the Second World War.
pages 188–9. ‘Elsie Whiteman and …’: Sue Bruley, ed., Working for Victory: A Diary of Life in a Second World War Factory.
page 190. ‘Among the Yorkshire welders …’: Jolly, ed., Dear Laughing Motorbyke.
pages 190–91. ‘My initiation …’: cited in Longmate, ed., The Home Front.
page 191. ‘Margaret Perry was another …’: Margaret Perry’s untitled memoir is held in the collection of working-class autobiographies at Brunel University.
page 191. ‘The welders seem not …’: Jolly, ed., Dear Laughing Motorbyke.
page 191. ‘One investigation …’: see Pearl Jephcott, Rising Twenty: Notes on Some Ordinary Girls.
page 192. Making a thing …’: see ‘The Thing-Ummy-Bob’, written by Gordon Thompson and David Heneker.
pages 192–3. ‘In their off-duty …’: Jolly, ed., Dear Laughing Motorbyke.
page 193. ‘Amabel Williams-Ellis’s book …’: Amabel Williams-Ellis, Women in War Factories.
page 194. ‘One day … a gang of us …’: cited in Townsend and Townsend, War Wives.
page 194. ‘a joke started …’: see Costello, Love, Sex and War.
pages 194–5. ‘When the GIs from Steeple Morden …’: see Elfrieda Berthiaume Shukert and Barbara Smith Scibetta, War Brides of World War II.
page 195. ‘As Madeleine Henrey wrote …’: MH/LONDON.
pages 196–7. ‘When African American …’: see Shukert and Scibetta, War Brides.
page 197. ‘Frances Partridge wrote …’: FP/PW.
pages 197–9. ‘Dolly Scannell, a married …’: Scannell, Dolly’s War.
page 199. ‘Margaret Tapster used to dance …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A5827665.
page 199. ‘While American women …’: see Shukert and Scibetta, War Brides.
pages 199–200. ‘[Eddie] told me …’ [also Ruth Patchen story]: see http://uswarbrides.com/bride_stories/index.html.
page 200. ‘Nineteen-year-old Mary Angove …’: MD/A.
pages 200–201. ‘Barbara Cartland would be …’: BC/YO.
pages 201–4. ‘Corporal ‘Mike’ Morris’s …’: AC/ENEMY.
pages 204–8. ‘A startlingly pretty debutante …’: HL/CI.
page 208. ‘Clara Milburn listened …’: CM/MM.
page 208. ‘the London diarist …’: Hodgson, Few Eggs and No Oranges.
pages 208–9. ‘Kathleen Church-Bliss …’: Bruley, ed., Working for Victory.
page 209. Frances Partridge hardly …’: FP/PW.
page 209. ‘Two Sundays ago …’: see A Churchill Anthology.
page 209. ‘Nella Last listened …’: NL/NLW.
Chapter 7: Sunny Intervals
page 210. ‘WAAFs like R/T operator …’: PB/WAAF.
page 210. ‘Wren Pat Bawland …’: author interview with Pat Evans, née Bawland, 2008.
page 210. ‘Hearts do break …’: cited in Townsend and Townsend, War Wives.
pages 211–13. ‘Today, Cora Williams …’: CW/A.
page 214. ‘a Blitz survey …’: cited in Harrisson, Living through the Blitz.
pages 214–15. ‘Nella Last and her husband …’: NL/NLW.
page 214. ‘Doffy Brewer still remembers …’: DB/A.
page 214. ‘Doris Scorer’s days off …’: DW/DV.
page 215. ‘Mary Fedden went …’: from Nicholson, ed., What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?
page 215. ‘Barbara Pym was …’: Pym, A Very Private Eye.
page 215. ‘Clara Milburn found …’: CM/MM.
pages 215–16. ‘Susan Woolfit’s war work …’: in Jenny Hartley, ed., Hearts Undefeated – Women’s Writing of the Second World War.
page 216. ‘You lived at that period …’: CW/A.
pages 216–20. ‘Phyllis Noble longed …’: PW/CAW; PW/CCA.
pages 220–23. ‘Joan Wyndham’s war …’: JW/LB.
pages 223–4. ‘Elizabeth Jane Howard …’: EJH/A; EJH/S.
pages 224–5. ‘Meanwhile, Phyllis
Noble …’: PW/CAW; PW/CCA.
page 226. ‘Meanwhile, male attitudes …’: : see Costello, Love, Sex and War.
page 226. ‘Ex-WAAF Joan Tagg …’: JT/A.
page 227. ‘one US staff sergeant …’: Costello, Love, Sex and War.
page 227. ‘they often issued a supercharge …’: see MH/LONDON.
page 227. ‘Flo Mahony was a WAAF …’: FM/A.
pages 227–8. ‘I’ve been working in London …’: cited in Nicholson, What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?
page 228. ‘A slice off a cut loaf …’: cited in Townsend and Townsend, War Wives.
page 228. ‘Disturbing clashes …’: examples cited in Waller and Vaughan-Rees, Women in Wartime.
page 229. ‘Jane Howard’s baby …’: EJH/S.
page 229. ‘the correspondence columns …’: in The Times, 1942.
page 229. ‘Mass Observation interviewed …’: cited in Sheridan, ed., Wartime Women.
page 230. ‘It’s one in the eye …’: NM/NOTES.
page 230. ‘On 23 March 1943 …’: NL/NLW.
page 230. ‘it was a fate …’: JT/A.
pages 230–31. ‘One ATS Officer …’: cited in de Courcy, Debs at War.
page 230. ‘Far worse was …’: LK/MD.
page 231. ‘Barbara Cartland stressed …’: BC/YO.
pages 231–2. ‘Seventeen-year-old Vivian Fisher’s …’: cited in Ben Wicks, Welcome Home: True Stories of Soldiers Returning from World War II.
page 232. ‘Another woman whose husband …’: cited in Townsend and Townsend, War Wives.
page 232. ‘A soldier based …’: cited in Grenfell, The Time of My Life.
page 232. ‘The agony aunts …’: see Waller and Vaughan-Rees, Women in Wartime.
page 232. ‘Pregnant mums …’: see Longmate, How We Lived Then.
pages 232–3. ‘Madeleine Henrey …’: MH/LONDON.
pages 233–4. ‘Verily Bruce was another …’: VA/A; VA/SPAM.
pages 235–9. ‘In 1942–3 QA Lorna Bradey’s …’: LK/MD.
pages 240–41. ‘In the summer of 1943 …’: NB/TIME.
page 241. ‘Shirley Goodhart …’: MO.
pages 241–2. ‘Margery Baines (née Berney) …’: MB/NGS.
page 242. ‘People talk …’: MP-D/NY.
page 242. ‘Naomi Mitchison took …’: NM/NOTES.
pages 242–3. ‘Land girl Kay Mellis’s …’: KW/A.
page 243. ‘Lovely breakfasts …’: CM/MM.
page 243. ‘I just wanted …’: PC-H/A.
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