Tag Archives: women

Dancing on active service shock

Posted on Oct 1, 2018 by Hannah

View this post on Instagram It’s not fair! Canadian nurses serving in France during #WW1 #GreatWar were allowed to dance! With men! (Well, fellow officers anyway…) This was Strictly Forbidden for British nurses. Extract from 1919 Report of the Work … Continue reading →

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Excitable with peculiar mannerisms…

Posted on Oct 1, 2018 by Hannah

View this post on Instagram Another afternoon in the #NationalArchives, this time browsing references written by matrons for nurses wishing serve in France in the #GreatWar #FirstWorldWar #WW1 with Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps #QARANC. The women are all … Continue reading →

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The Incurable Romantic (research review)

Posted on Sep 11, 2018 by Hannah

View this post on Instagram The Incurable Romantic by Frank Tallis (2018) is compulsive background reading for a writer of #historicalromance. Falling in love is “a combustable state that reproduces the symptoms of psychiatric illness” and, when love goes wrong, … Continue reading →

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Aftermath of war

Posted on Sep 3, 2018 by Hannah

View this post on Instagram This is Road at St Paul (1922) by French artist Félix Vallotton. It features in @tate excellent exhibition #WW1Aftermath. A while ago I wrote (on my blog) about the inspiration I get from my various … Continue reading →

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The Joy of Writing Sex (research review)

Posted on Aug 30, 2018 by Hannah

View this post on Instagram I read The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers by Elizabeth Benedict (revised edition 2001) on Kindle, which may accounts for the boring cover image. Sorry about that – and apologies also … Continue reading →

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Worthless Men (reading-as-a-writer 10)

Posted on Aug 30, 2018 by Hannah

View this post on Instagram Why do I bother writing when the world already contains books like Worthless Men by Andrew Cowan (2013)? Set in an English market town in post-Somme 1916, the action spans no more than a couple … Continue reading →

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Testament of Mary (reading-as-a-writer 9)

Posted on Aug 15, 2018 by Hannah

View this post on Instagram I had to read Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin (2012) twice; the first time to get to the end of a gripping story, the second time to read the words. In between sittings, I … Continue reading →

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The Roses of No Man’s Land (research review)

Posted on Aug 7, 2018 by Hannah

View this post on Instagram Out of all the books I’ve read about the #GreatWar Lyn MacDonald’s histories stand out; readable, warm and packed with the minutiae of human experience set against solid historical background. I know some historians have … Continue reading →

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Three brilliant Great War blogs

Posted on Jan 6, 2018 by Hannah

Erudite, witty, and beautifully written, this blog never fails to fascinate and move in equal measure. Continue reading →

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Five books (written during or soon after the Great War)

Posted on Jan 6, 2018 by Hannah

An irregular series of highlighting the resources which particular inspire or inform my writing. I read a lot of books written around the time of the Great War. There is absolutely no better way to immerse oneself in the language … Continue reading →

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