Scars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry & Verse of the First World War - (women's poetry and verse of the First World War )
Catherine Reilly
Virago (1989)
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The Raiders by Marian Allen
The Wind On The Downs by Marian Allen
Leave In 1917 by Lilian M. Anderson
'education' by Pauline B. Barrington
Munition Wages by Madeline Ida Bedford
The Parson's Job by Madeline Ida Bedford
From A Trench by Maud Anna Bell
Drafts by Nora Bomford
Over The Top by Sybil Bristowe
The Lament Of The Demobilised by Vera Mary Brittain
Perhaps - (to R.a.l. Died Of Wounds In France ... 1915) by Vera Mary Brittain
To My Brother (in Memory Of July 1, 1916) by Vera Mary Brittain
Lamplight by May Wedderburn Cannan
Love, 1916 by May Wedderburn Cannan
Rouen; 26 April - 25 May 1915 by May Wedderburn Cannan
Since They Have Died To Give Us A Gentleness by May Wedderburn Cannan
Anniversary Of The Great Retreat (1915) by Isabel Constance Clarke
Afterwards by Margaret Postgate Cole
The Falling Leaves; November 1915 by Margaret Postgate Cole
Praematuri by Margaret Postgate Cole
The Veteran; May, 1916 by Margaret Postgate Cole
Women At Munition Making by Mary Gabrielle Collins
Fallen by Alice (henderson) Corbin
Zeppelins by Nancy Cunard
Flanders Fields by Elizabeth Daryush
For A Survivor Of The Mesopotamian Campaign by Elizabeth Daryush
Subalterns by Elizabeth Daryush
Unknown Warrior by Elizabeth Daryush
After Bourlon Wood by Helen Dircks
London In War by Helen Dircks
Gramophone Tunes by Eva Dobell
Night Duty by Eva Dobell
Pluck by Eva Dobell
A Volunteer by Helen Parry Eden
Pierrot Goes To War by Gabrielle Elliot
Easter Monday by Eleanor Farjeon
Peace by Eleanor Farjeon
Second Love: 41 by Eleanor Farjeon
'a Fight To The Finish' by S. Gertrude Ford
Nature In War-time by S. Gertrude Ford
The Tenth Armistice Day by S. Gertrude Ford
The Three Lads by Elizabeth Chandler Forman
Her 'allowance' by Lillian Gard
The Battle Of The Swamps by Muriel Elsie Graham
The Lark Above The Trenches by Muriel Elsie Graham
The Wykhamist by Nora Griffiths
The Fallen by Diana Gurney
Non-combatant by Cicely Hamilton
The Ghouls by Helen Hamilton
The Jingo-woman by Helen Hamilton
The Romancing Poet by Helen Hamilton
New Year, 1916 by Ada May Harrison
An Incident by Mary H. J. Henderson
Airman, R.f.c. by Agnes Grozier Herbertson
The Seed-merchant's Son by Agnes Grozier Herbertson
'for Valour' by May Herschel-clarke
'nothing To Report' by May Herschel-clarke
A War Film by Teresa Hooley
Dulce Et Decorum? by Elinor Jenkins
Reported Missing by Anna Gordon Keown
The Lost Army by Margery Lawrence
Transport Of Wounded In Mesopotamia, 1917 by Margery Lawrence
Casualty by Winifred Mary Letts
The Deserter by Winifred Mary Letts
Screens (in A Hospital) by Winifred Mary Letts
What Reward? by Winifred Mary Letts
Despair by Olive E. Lindsay
Convalescence by Amy Lowell
Picnic; July 1917 by Emilie Rose Macaulay
The Shadow by Emilie Rose Macaulay
Sing A Song Of War-time by Nina Macdonald
At The Movies by Florence Ripley Mastin
The Cenotaph; September 1919 by Charlotte Mew
June, 1915 by Charlotte Mew
May, 1915 by Charlotte Mew
'lord, I Owe Thee A Death' (in Time Of War) by Alice Meynell
Summer In England, 1914 by Alice Meynell
He Went For A Soldier by Ruth Comfort Mitchell
The Fields Of Flanders by Edith Bland Nesbit
Spring In War-time by Edith Bland Nesbit
Last Leave (1918) by Eileen Newton
Revision (for November 11th) by Eileen Newton
In A Restaurant, 1917 by Eleanour Trehane Norton
The Minority: 1917 by May O'rourke
Ambulance Train 30 by Carola Oman
Brussels, 1919 by Carola Oman
A Recruit From The Slums by Emily Orr
The Call by Jessie Pope
The Nut's Birthday by Jessie Pope
Socks by Jessie Pope
War Girls by Jessie Pope
On The Porch by Marjorie Power
'sall' (in Aid Of The Wounded Horses) by Inez Quilter
Remembrance Day In The Dales by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe
The Cenotaph by Ursala Roberts
A Memory by Margaret Sackville
Sacrament by Margaret Sackville
July 1st, 1916 by Aimee Byng Scott
Field Ambulance In Retreat; Via Dolorosa, Via Sacra by May Sinclair
The Dancers (during A Great Battle, 1916) by Edith Sitwell
The Convalescent by Cicely Fox Smith
Night On The Shore (northumberland. August 6, 1914) by Marie Carmichael Stopes
Forgotten Dead, I Salute You by Muriel Stuart
One Night by Millicent Sutherland
Y.m.c.a. by C. A. L. T.
Spring In War Time by Sara Teasdale
There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale
In Time Of War by Lesbia Thanet
Invitation Au Festin by Aelfrida Tillyard
A Letter From Ealing Broadway Station by Aelfrida Tillyard
And Afterwards, When Honour Has Made Good by Iris Tree
Of All Who Died In Sielnce Far Away by Iris Tree
The Hospital Visitor by Alys Fane Trotter
The Broken Soldier by Katharine Tynan
A Girl's Song by Katharine Tynan
Joining The Colours (west Kents, Dublin, August 1914) by Katharine Tynan
Kensington Gardens (1915) by Viviane Verne
In A V.a.d. Pantry by Alberta Vickridge
Autumn, 1914 by Mary Webb
Christmas, 1916 (thoughts In A V.a.d. Hospital Kitchen) by M. Winifred Wedgwood
The V.a.d. Scullery-maid's Song by M. Winifred Wedgwood
The Poet And The Butcher by Catherine Durning Whetham
Christ In Flanders by Lucy Whitmell
Gervais (killed At The Dardanelles) by Margaret Adelaide Wilson
To Tony - Aged Three by Marjorie Wilson
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LoC Classification PR1195.W65S28 1981
Dewey 823/.912/080358
Nationality British
Cover Price $13.95
No. of Pages 144
Height x Width 8.1 x 5.6  inch
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'Your battle wounds are scars upon my heart' wrote Vera Brittain in a poem to her beloved brother, four days before he died in June 1918. The rediscovery of TESTAMENT OF YOUTH has reminded a new generation of the bitter sufferings of women as well as men in the terrible madness of the First World War. This, the first anthology of women war poets for over sixty years, will come as a surprise to many. It shows, for example, that women were writing protest poetry before Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, and that the view of 'the women at home', ignorant and idealistic, was quite false. Many of these poems come out of direct experiences of nursing the victims of trench warfare, or the pain of lovers, brothers, sons lost. Poets include: Nancy Cunard, Rose Macaulay, Charlotte Mew, Alice Meynell, Edith Nesbit, Edith Sitwell, Marie Stopes, Katharine Tynan. Here, as elsewhere, 'the poetry is in the pity' - a moving record of women's experience of war.

About the Author
Catherine Reilly was born in Stretford and educated in Manchester, held an M.Litt. from Oxford University and was a specialist on the poetry of the two world wars. She died, aged 80, in September 2005.