British Women Writers of World War II : Battlegrounds of their Own

This work provides an analysis of politicized literature in which such British women writers as Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Stevie Smith, and Storm Jameson debated the "justness" of World War II.

The book questions prevailing approaches to women's war writing by exploring the complex range of pacifist and activist literary forms of women who redefined such pieties as patriotism and duty, and heroism and victimization.