page 243. ‘In 1944 the author …’: Margaret Goldsmith, Women and the Future.
pages 243–5. ‘Nella Last listened …’: NL/NLW.
Chapter 8: Over There
page 246. ‘No chance of chicken …’: Hodgson, Few Eggs and No Oranges.
page 246. ‘Naomi Mitchison hung …’: NM/NOTES.
page 246. ‘Wren Maureen Bolster …’: Maureen Wells, Entertaining Eric: A Wartime Love Story.
page 246. ‘In Inverness, Joan Wyndham …’: JW/LB.
page 246. ‘Nella Last wished …’: NL/NLW.
pages 246–7. ‘In Croydon, Elsie Whiteman …’: Bruley, ed., Working for Victory.
page 247. ‘Clara Milburn went …’: CM/MM.
page 247. ‘Some of you may …’: reported in The Times, 28 December 1943.
page 247. ‘Mike Morris of the “Y” …’: AC/ENEMY.
page 248. ‘Some people think …’: cited in Koa Wing, ed., Our Longest Days.
page 248. ‘I’m just living for the day …’: cited in Tamasin Day-Lewis, ed., Last Letters Home.
pages 249–51. ‘Joyce Grenfell had packed …’: see Grenfell, The Time of My Life; Hampton, ed., Joyce and Ginnie.
pages 251–4. ‘Vera Lynn’s travel experiences …’: author interview with Dame Vera Lynn, 2009; interview with Nigel Farndale, Daily Telegraph, 17 August 2009.
pages 254–5. ‘At the famous Windmill Theatre …’: see Doris Barry in Nicholson, What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?
page 255. ‘Theatre director Nancy Hewins …’: see entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
pages 255–6. ‘twenty-two-year-old Isa Barker …’: author interview with Isa Rankin, née Barker, 2008.
page 256. ‘ATS recruit Vera Roberts …’: author interview with Vera Roberts, 2009.
pages 256–9. ‘For Helen Forrester …’: HF/LIME.
pages 259–60. ‘Monica Littleboy …’: MS/MEM.
page 260. ‘On 2 April a friend …’: FP/PW.
page 260. ‘Up in Scotland …’: NM/NOTES.
page 260. ‘Verily Anderson …’: VA/SPAM.
pages 260–61. ‘When Vera Brittain …’: Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience: An Autobiographical Story of the Years 1925–1950.
page 261. ‘a nuisance to anyone …’: MO.
page 261. ‘The routine …’: DW/DV.
page 261. ‘Mavis Lever was able …’: MB/A.
page 261. ‘SOE agents …’: see Mar.P/OI.
pages 262–3. ‘Senior Wren Christian Lamb …’: CL/HAT.
page 263. ‘WAAF Edna Hodgson …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A2300400.
page 263. ‘like Maureen Bolster …’: Wells, Entertaining Eric.
pages 263–4. ‘On his last leave …’: HF/LIME.
page 264. ‘Sylvia Kay …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A3094238.
page 264. ‘ATS volunteer Mary Macleod …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A4910528.
page 264. ‘A young Irish nurse …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A8999004.
page 264. ‘QA Maureen Gara …’: Obituary of Lieutenant-Colonel Maureen Gara, Daily Telegraph, 27 December 2009.
page 264. ‘Meanwhile, Monica …’: MS/MEM.
page 264. ‘On 24 May Elsie Whiteman …’: Bruley, ed., Working for Victory.
pages 264–5. ‘Twenty-eight-year-old Aileen Hawkins …’: see Obituary of Aileen Hawkins in The Thomas Hardy Fellowship Newsletter 13 (Winter 2006), ed. John Pentney; poem in Anne Powell, ed., Shadows of War: British Women’s Poetry of the Second World War.
pages 265–6. ‘We are gated …’: Wells, Entertaining Eric.
page 266. ‘D-day had been scheduled …’: see Antony Beevor, D-Day: The Battle for Normandy.
page 266. ‘On the Isle of Wight …’: MS/MEM.
page 266. ‘The typists working …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A4910528.
page 266. ‘Clara Milburn hung …’: CM/MM.
pages 266–7. ‘Verily Anderson and Julie …’: VA/SPAM.
page 267. ‘Sheets hung out …’: cited in Longmate, ed., The Home Front.
page 267. ‘Sheila Hails, marooned …’: SH-J/A.
pages 267–8. ‘Mollie Panter-Downes …’: MP-D/NY.
page 268. ‘For London-based Frenchwoman …’: MH/LONDON; MH/FARM.
pages 268–9. ‘All around us …’: Rozelle Raynes, Maid Matelot.
pages 269–70. ‘From the Isle of Wight …’: MS/MEM.
page 270. ‘in Nancy O’Sullivan’s …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A8999004.
page 270. ‘In Portsmouth …’: The D-day and Normandy Fellowship website, http://ddnf.org.uk/, D-Day Memories of Naina Cox.
pages 270–71. ‘Monica Littleboy accompanied …’: MS/MEM.
page 271. ‘Maureen Bolster was …’: Wells, Entertaining Eric.
pages 271–3. ‘That June, Helen Forrester …’: HF/LIME.
page 273. ‘Wrens like Ena Howes …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A4162187.
pages 273–4. ‘Iris Ogilvie …’: see Cross and de Gex, Unsung Heroines; also obituary of Iris Ogilvie, Daily Telegraph, 10 January 2006.
pages 274–8. ‘QA Joy Taverner …’: JoyT/A; see also BBC/PW, article ID: A1096580 (reprinted with permission); excerpt from ‘Until Belsen’ in Powell, ed., Shadows of War.
Chapter 9: No Real Victory
pages 279–80. ‘Miss Florence Speed …’: Florence Speed, Diary of Miss F. M. Speed, Imperial War Museum, Department of Documents, IWM 86/45/2.
page 280. ‘London is in a chastened …’: Hodgson, Few Eggs and No Oranges.
page 280. ‘the “up-for-the-day …” ’:MP-D/NY.
pages 280–81. ‘I don’t like these Bombs …’: in Campbell-Preston, The Rich Spoils of Time.
page 281. ‘As code-breaker …’: MB/A.
pages 282–3. ‘In 1943 ATS …’: DB/GIRLS.
page 283. ‘Horrible creatures …’: CM/MM.
page 283. ‘We all thought …’: cited in Koa Wing, ed., Our Longest Days.
pages 283–4. ‘Swamped as she was …’: MB/NGS.
page 284. ‘Maggie Joy Blunt …’: MO; and see Simon Garfield, Our Hidden Lives – The Remarkable Diaries of Post-war Britain.
page 284. ‘Barbara Cartland questioned …’: BC/YO.
page 284. ‘In summer 1944 …’: cited in David Kynaston, Austerity Britain 1945–1951.
page 285. ‘Writing in 1953 …’: Vera Brittain, Lady into Woman: A History of Women from Victoria to Elizabeth II.
page 286. ‘What would you be doing …’: DB/GIRLS.
page 286. ‘I long for an excuse …’: MO.
page 288. ‘one smart lady …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A2915705.
page 288. ‘We were a lot fitter …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A4050749.
page 288. ‘Frances Faviell bicycled …’: FF/CHELSEA.
page 288. ‘Don’t forget …’: JT/A.
page 289. ‘The public has been asked …’: MP-D/NY.
page 289. ‘Lady Clementine Beit …’: see Peggy Scott, British Women at War.
page 290. ‘When you feel tired …’: cited in Longmate, How We Lived Then.
page 291. ‘Constance Galilee …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A2915705.
page 291. ‘I’ve hardly anything …’: MO.
page 291. ‘The thoughtful Barbara Cartland …’: BC/YO.
page 291. ‘One diarist described …’: MO.
page 292. ‘Phyllis Noble’s mum …’: PW/CAW.
page 292. ‘Frances Partridge was one …’: FP/PW.
page 292. ‘In September 1943 …’: Speed, Diary.
page 292. ‘For Sheila Hails …’: SH-J/A.
pages 292–3. ‘It took the war …’: NL/NLW.
page 293. ‘Our mums could cook …’: JT/A.
pages 293–7. ‘One of them was Margaret Herbertson …’: Mar.P/OI; Mar.P/A.
pages 297–301. ‘QA Joy Taverner …’: JoyT/A; JoyT/PP; JoyT/PW; excerpt from ‘Until Belsen’ in Powell, ed., Shadows of War.
page 298. ‘A British repor
ter …’: transcript of Richard Dimbleby’s report given on www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WW.
page 301. ‘Maggie Joy Blunt could …’: MO.
page 301. ‘Anne Popham’s job …’: AP/A.
pages 301–2. ‘Maggie Joy Blunt was equally …’: MO.
page 302. ‘Joan Wyndham’s party spirits …’: JW/LB.
page 302. ‘Clara Milburn listened …’: CM/MM.
page 302. ‘Vere Hodgson shared …’: Hodgson, Few Eggs and No Oranges.
page 302. ‘Naomi Mitchison had witnessed …’: NM/NOTES.
page 302. ‘Sheila Hails, a pacifist …’: SH-J/A.
pages 302–3. ‘Frances Partridge, as usual …’: FP/PW.
page 303. ‘Thelma Ryder’s concerns …’: TR/A.
page 303. ‘There is no such thing …’: ‘September 1, 1939’, first published in book form in W. H. Auden, Another Time.
page 304. ‘In 2003 Joy Taverner’s …’: JoyT/PW.
pages 304–7. ‘Maggie Joy Blunt was appalled …’: MO.
Chapter 10: A Brave New World
page 308. ‘Mary Angove let rip …’: MD/A.
pages 308–9. ‘Verily Anderson and …’: VA/SPAM.
pages 308–9. ‘The German war …’: see A Churchill Anthology.
page 309. ‘Looking on, Mollie Panter-Downes …’: MP-D/NY.
pages 309–10. ‘Marguerite Patten’s mother …’: MP/A.
page 310. ‘ “A magic night” …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A2756351.
page 310. ‘Vere Hodgson recorded …’: Hodgson, Few Eggs and No Oranges.
page 310. ‘Like thousands …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A1951355.
page 310. ‘Teenager Anne Thompson …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A40575117.
page 310. ‘In Oxford …’: NB/TIME.
page 311. ‘Like many others …’: cited in Koa Wing, ed., Our Longest Days.
page 311. ‘Muriel Green got drunk …’: cited in ibid.
page 311. ‘Joan Wyndham headed …’: JW/LB.
page 311. ‘One young woman …’: cited in Wicks, Welcome Home
page 311. ‘Another woman …’: cited in Longmate, ed., The Home Front.
pages 311–12. ‘Soldiers like Jack Clark …’: cited in Day-Lewis, ed., Last Letters Home.
page 312. ‘By 1945 QA Lorna Bradey …’: LK/MD.
pages 312–13. ‘Margaret Herbertson remained …’: Mar.P/OI.
page 313. ‘Widowed at the age …’: CW/A.
page 313. ‘Monica Littleboy …’: MS/MEM.
pages 313–14. ‘Thelma Ryder didn’t …’: TR/A.
page 314. ‘The diarist Shirley Goodhart …’: MO.
pages 314–16. ‘On VE-day Jack Milburn …’: CM/MM.
pages 316–17. ‘Patrick Campbell-Preston …’: Campbell-Preston, The Rich Spoils of Time.
page 317. ‘Jean McFadyen was still working …’: JP/A.
pages 317–19. ‘Doris Scorer’s boyfriend …’: DW/DV.
page 319. ‘Frank was to prove …’: information from Roger Kitchen, Wolverton, and recorded interview with Doris White, Living Archive Online, Milton Keynes.
page 319. ‘Helen Forrester couldn’t help …’: HF/LIME.
pages 319–20. ‘WAAF driver Flo Mahony …’: FM/A.
page 320. ‘Flo Mahony’s friend …’: JT/A.
pages 320–22. ‘Still in Italy …’: Mar.P/OI.
page 322. ‘QA Lorna Bradey …’: LK/MD.
page 323. ‘Zelma Katin had become …’: Katin, Clippie.
page 323. ‘Naomi Mitchison’s socialism …’: Naomi Mitchison to Tom Harrisson, 9 October 1944, cited in Jenni Calder, The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison.
page 323. ‘Vera Brittain had spent …’: see entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
page 324. ‘On VE-day Nella …’: NL/NLW.
pages 324–6. ‘The wife of a Surrey vicar …’: see entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; also Paul Addison, Now the War Is Over: A Social History of Britain 1945–51; and The Times, 9 July 1946, 12 September 1947.
page 327. ‘Shirley Goodhart’s Mass Observation …’: MO.
pages 327–8. ‘The Oxford student …’: NB/TIME.
page 328. ‘The Labour manifesto …’: see Kynaston, Austerity Britain.
pages 328–9 ‘Naomi Mitchison had mixed …’: NM/NOTES, and Calder, The Nine Lives.
page 329. ‘Britain was still living …’: see Kynaston, Austerity Britain.
page 329. ‘Nella Last couldn’t get …’: NL/NLW.
page 329. ‘In Slough, Maggie Joy Blunt …’: MO.
page 329. ‘Barbara Pym often felt …’: Pym, A Very Private Eye.
page 329. ‘Mary Wesley remarked …’: see Marnham, Wild Mary.
pages 329–30. ‘In Paris …’: Cooper, Trumpets from the Steep.
page 330. ‘People laughed when …’: cited in Longmate, How We Lived Then.
pages 330–31. ‘The middle-aged novelist …’: Ursula Bloom, Trilogy.
pages 331–2. ‘But Nina Mabey couldn’t be there …’: NB/TIME.
page 332. ‘Naomi Mitchison had come down …’: Calder, The Nine Lives.
pages 332–3. ‘Some Tories, like Virginia Graham …’: see Anne Harvey’s preface to Virginia Graham, Consider the Years.
page 333. ‘Nella Last called in …’: NL/NLW.
page 333. ‘Ursula Bloom felt …’: Ursula Bloom, Trilogy.
page 334. ‘Thelma Ryder felt …’: TR/A.
pages 334–5. ‘At last, at long last! …’: cited in Koa Wing, Our Longest Days.
page 335. ‘Eileen Jones …’: BBC/PW, article ID: A4506851.
page 335. ‘One despairing woman …’: Mass Observation, Peace and the Public.
page 335. ‘Ursula Bloom spent …’: Bloom, Trilogy.
page 335. ‘Nella Last felt …’: NL/NLW.
page 335. ‘Frances Partridge …’: FP/PW.
page 336. ‘The Daily Mail columnist …’: Daily Mail, 9 August 1945.
pages 336–7. ‘On VJ-day Lorna Bradey …’: LK/MD.
pages 337–8. ‘For Phyllis Noble …’: PW/CAW.
page 338. ‘Helen Forrester too …’: HF/LIME.
pages 338–9. ‘Monica Littleboy’s memories …’: MS/MEM.
pages 339–40. ‘Thelma Ryder was luckier …’: TR/A.
Chapter 11: Picking Up the Threads
pages 341–2. ‘When the war ended …’: MO.
page 343. ‘Ex-FANY Margaret Herbertson …’: Mar.P/A.
page 343. ‘Mike Morris …’ etc: for all sources see under individual names in abbreviations list.
page 344. ‘The rejoicing had gone sour …’: Bloom, Trilogy.
page 344. ‘Woman’s Own columnist …’: Woman’s Own, March 1946.
page 345. ‘One uniformed bride-to-be …’: cited in Sheridan, ed., Wartime Women.
pages 345–6. ‘Nurse Helen Vlasto …’: HL/CI.
page 346. ‘the white flame …’: NL/NLW.
pages 346–7. ‘Ex-Flight Officer Wyndham …’: JW/AO.
pages 347–8. ‘Wren telegraphist …’: letter to author from Anne Glynn-Jones.
page 348. ‘Flo Mahony thrived …’: FM/A.
page 348. ‘An edifice seemed …’: PB/WAAF.
page 348. ‘Stoker Wren Rozelle Raynes …’: Raynes, Maid Matelot.
page 349. ‘But Jean McFadyen …’: JP/A.
pages 350–51. ‘When Joan and Les Kelsall …’: JK/A.
page 351. ‘Four walls and a roof …’: cited in Kynaston, Austerity Britain.
pages 351–2. ‘the squatting bandwagon …’: see Addison, Now the War Is Over.
page 352. ‘The journalist Mollie Panter-Downes …’: MP-D/NY.
pages 352–3. ‘Nella Last was open-eyed …’: NL/NLP.
page 353. ‘The new world was hard …’: Bloom, Trilogy.
page 353. ‘All too often …’: MP-D/NY.
pages 353–4. ‘The writer Angela du Maurier …’: Angela du M
aurier, It’s Only the Sister: An Autobiography.
page 354. ‘The diarist Maggie Joy Blunt …’: MO.
page 354. ‘Nevertheless, Mary Manton …’: Daily Sketch, November 1945.
pages 354–5. ‘Sylvia Duncan was another …’: Daily Sketch, February 1946.
page 355. ‘ “E”, writing to the Daily Mail …’: Daily Mail, 16 October 1945.
page 355. ‘Nella Last tried to identify …’: NL/NLP.
page 355. ‘There is not room …’: Daily Mail, 16 August 1945.
pages 355–6. ‘Helen Forrester put her devastated …’: HF/LIME.
page 356. Flo Mahony was demobilised …’: FM/A.
pages 356–8. ‘VAD Helen Vlasto …’: HL/CI.
pages 358–9. ‘Joan Wyndham put £5 …’: JW/AO.
pages 359–61. ‘Verily Anderson was almost never …’: VA/SPAM.
page 361. ‘Good morning, my sweet …’: cited in Susan Briggs, Keep Smiling Through: The Home Front 1939–45.
page 362. ‘the historian Harold L. Smith …’: Smith, ‘The Effect of War on the Status of Women’.
pages 362–4. ‘One of these was Dolly Scannell …’: Scannell, Dolly’s War.
page 363. ‘Don’t expect to pick up …’: cited in Summers, Stranger in the House.
page 365. ‘Probably, “When I was in Peshawar in ’43” …’: These examples cited by ibid., Alan Allport, Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War, and various contemporary newspaper articles and correspondence.
page 365. ‘Desert rat Charles Hopkinson …’: cited in Wicks, Welcome Home.
pages 365–7. ‘Once demobbed, Chas Scannell …’: Scannell, Dolly’s War.
page 366. ‘Cookery expert Marguerite Patten’s …’: MP/A.
page 367. ‘Ann Temple’s finger …’: article and correspondence in Daily Mail, 16 October 1945.
page 369. ‘the big-hearted tolerance of Greg James …’: cited in Summers, Stranger in the House.
page 369. ‘the murderous rage of Private Reginald Keymer … Sergeant Albert Nettleton … Private Cyril Patmore … ex-serviceman Leonard Holmes …’: see Allport, Demobbed.
pages 369–70. ‘One of the few things …’: MB/NGS.
page 370. ‘I am going to have …’: Woman, 23 February 1946.
page 370. ‘I am ashamed to say …’: Woman, 16 February 1946.
page 370. ‘I am engaged …’: Woman’s Own, March 1946.
pages 371–3. ‘Shortly after the liberation …’: MH/FARM.
Chapter 12: A Bitter Time
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