- 1989 . Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives Bloomington For a thorough discussion of the personal narrative and life story method, see Personal Narrative Group, eds, (See also A. Goebel, ‘Life Histories as aCross-Cultural Feminist Method in African Studies: Achievements and Blunders’ (Paper, South African Historical Society Conference, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 1995). The extent to which women have been rendered subordinate or invisible in the historical record, especially in South Africa, is well-explored and argued in H. Bradford, ‘Gentlemen and Boers: AfrikanerNationalism, Gender and Colonial Warfare in the South African War’ (Paper, ‘Rethinking the South African War’ Conference, Unisa Library, 3–5 Aug. 1998)
- Malcolm , J. 1995 . The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes 110 London
- Vietzen , S. 1973 . A History of Education for European Girls in Natal 1837–1902 Pietermaritzburg See
- Woodham-Smith , C. 1970 . Florence Nightingale 103 London
- Marwick , A. 1977 . Women at War 1914–1918 London
- Brittain , V. 1960 . Testament qfYouth: An Autobiography of the Years 1900–1925 London (first ed. 1933), 329–30
- Keegan , J. 1993 . A History of Warfare New York (76, quoted in R. Pennington, ‘Offensive Women: Women in Combat in the Red Army’, in P. Addison and A. Calder, eds, Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West, 1939–1945 (London, 1997), 249
- Ibid.
- Cooke , M. 1996 . Women and the War Story Berkeley and Los Angeles
- Ibid., 4
- Ibid., 5, 15–16
- Ibid., 6
- Ibid., 5
- Ibid., 80
- Spies , S. B. 1980 . The South African War: The Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902 Edited by: Warwick , P. 161 London ‘Women and the War’, in, ed.
- Davenport , R. H.T. 1977 . South Africa: A Modern History Vol. 2 , Basingstoke See. for example (and L.M. Thompson in M. Wilson and L.M. Thompson, eds, The Oxford History of South Africa, vol. (Oxford, 1971), chapters 6 and 7
- Marquard , L. 1967 . Letters from a Boer Parsonage: Letters of Margaret Marquard during the Boer War Cape Town
- Spies, ‘Women and the War’, 161
- van , R. , ed. 1984 . Emily Hobhouse: Boer War Letters Cape Town and Pretoria See, for example, Reenen, ed.
- Davey , A. 1978 . The British Pro-Boers 1877–1902 168 – 77 . Cape Town (see also H. Hewison, Hedge of Wild Almonds: South Africa, the ‘Pro-Boers’ and the Quaker Conscience (Cape Town, 1989), passim.
- Moody , C. 1977 . Sophia Izedinova, A Few Months with the Boers: The War Reminiscences of a Russian Nursing Sister Johannesburg
- 1900. . I am indebted to Mr Steve Watt of Pietermaritzburg for copies of extracts of Our Work, June, July and Christmas number Mary Moore was closely associated with the Kilburn Sisters. Sister Theresa was nursed at St Anne's College before her death from enteric in April 1900 and Moore arranged and attended her funeral
- Driver , K. Experience of a Siege: A Nurse Looks Back on Ladysmith (Ladysmith Historical Society, Diary of the Siege of Ladysmith, No. 6, 1978). The Ladysmith Historical Society series of booklets on the siege includes a few other brief memoirs by women
- Lockett , C. , ed. 1990 . Breaking the Silence: A Century of South African Women's Poetry 14 – 20 . Johannesburg See, ed., (esp.
- van Wyk Smith , M. ‘The Poetry of War’, in Warwick, The South African War, 305–6. It is significant that this is one of two references to women's poetry in the article of 22 pages. Alice Green was a close friend of Mary Kingsley who died of typhoid while nursing Boer prisoners in Simonstown
- Schreiner , O. 1986 . The Woman's Rose Johannesburg (first published 1905), 91–127
- Schreiner , O. and Schreiner , O. 1978 . Woman and Labour London (first published 1911), 173
- Atteridge , M. P. A Short History of the Guild of Loyal Women in South Africa (Durban, n.d.), pamphlet in Killie Campbell Library, Durban
- Moore , M. 1928. . The Wykeham Collegiate Archives, Pietermaritzburg, manuscript note on the history of Wykeham School.
- Moore , M. Letters, 1890–2, 1897–1902. When I used them in the 1960s for my doctoral research on women's education in Natal they were in the care of the Wykeham Old Girls' Association. They were later passed on to the University of Natal Library in Pietermaritzburg and are now being held by the Killie Campbell Library in Durban
- Nixon , K. M. Now owned by Miss of Pietermaritzburg
- 1897. . Mary Moore to Mater and Chick, aboard the SS ‘Umvoti’, 2 July
- 1890. . Mary Moore to Mater, Christmas Eve
- Van Heyningen , E. 1993 . 14 – 25 . For a helpful discussion of women's diary material, see, ‘The Diary as a Historical Source: A Response’, Historia, 38, 1 (May
- 1928. . The Wykeham Collegiate Archives, Pietermaritzburg, M. Moore, manuscript note on the history of Wykeham School
- 1898. . Mary Moore to Mater, 13 Apr.
- The letters, passim.
- Mary Moore to Mater, 10 Aug. 1899, 9 Jan. 1900. It would seem that two of Uncle Evelyn's' sons served in the South African War but she did not say where
- 1964. . Personal interview, Mrs Queenie Fowler, ne6 Young, a foundation pupil of Wykeham School, 21 Mar.
- 1980 . The Natal Witness, 29 Apr., ‘Wykeham School Celebrates 75th Anniversary’
- 1898. . Mary Moore to Mater, 27 Apr.
- 1900. . These were the letters which covered Moore's tour of the Natal battlefields, so their absence is all the more regrettable: see Mary Moore to Mater, 5 July
- I am grateful to Mr Gilbert Torlage of Pietermaritzburg for guidance in this respect, and in other matters of detail related to the Battle of Colenso
- This summary has been drawn from the following works: J.B. Atkins, The Relief of Ladysmith (London, 1900);I. Knight, Colenso 1899: The Boer War in Natal (London, 1995);T. Pakenham, The Boer War (Johannesburg, 1979);H. Bailes, ‘Military Aspects of the War’, in Warwick, The South African War, 82–6
- Todd , P. and Fordham , D. 1980 . “ eds ” . In Private Tucker's Boer War Diary 34 London
- Quoted in Pakenham, Boer War, 237
- These figures were verified by Mr Steve Watt who has studied the war casualties extensively. They vary from source to source. Pakenham, Boer War, 240, quotes the same British casualties with one fewer wounded. Knight, Colenso 1899, 55, gives 1 127 British casualties of which 145 were killed, 762 wounded and 220 missing, and he gives 40 Boers killed and wounded
- Pakenham . Boer War 240
- Atkins . Relief of Ladysmith 180
- Pakenham . Boer War 240
- 1902. . He was required to defend his position formally before the Royal Commission on the War in South Africa in London in
- Spies , S. B. and Nattrass , G. 1993 . “ eds ” . In Jan Smuts: Memoirs of the Boer War 154 Johannesburg
- Reitz , D. 1948 . Commando.A Boer Journal of the Boer War London (first published 1929), 70
- 1898. . The Garrison Church, St George's, which was consecrated on 16 December
- 1998. . A raid was made on 7–8 December which was successful. Another on 10 December was not so successful. Personal interview, Gilbert Torlage, 8 June
- Magistrate of Newcastle and father of Ruby at St Anne's
- Baynes , A. H. 1900 . My Diocese During the War London Bishop, author of
- The Strachan girls caught the train to Thornville from where they caught the post cart to Umzimkulu
- Mrs Turner was from the Mooi River district. It is worth noting that Mary Moore consistently wrote ‘boers’ with a small ‘b’, signifying her contempt
- 1998. . The story that they fired to the last till all were dead has become part of the Colenso mythology. In fact they ran out of ammunition and withdrew. It is interesting how soon the ‘myth’ gained ground. Personal interview, Gilbert Torlage, 8 June
- Ten guns were eventually lost to the Boers
- Daisy, or the Skipper, was a relation of the Fannins. Mary Moore wrote: ‘Mr Fannin is going this afternoon for fear Sheila should hear of it and be upset’
- 1899. . The Natal Witness See, for example, the war news in, 18 and 20 Dec. For a discussion of press reportage of the war, see R. Sibbald, ed., The War Correspondents: The Boer War (Johannesburg, 1993)
- 1899. . Mary Moore to Mater, 17 Dec.
- 1899. . Mary Moore to Mater, 23 Dec.
- Major George Leuchars, who commanded the Umvoti Mounted Rifles during the South African War and was a Minister in the Natal Cabinet
- 1900. . Mary Moore to Mater, 1 Jan.
- 1900. . Mary Moore to Mater, 9 Jan.
- 1899. . Mary Moore to Mater, 13 June
- 1899. . Mary Moore to Mater, 22 Aug.
- 1899. . Mary Moore to Mater, 5 Nov.
- 1899. . Mary Moore to Mater, 17 Dec.
- 1998. . Personal interview, Gilbert Torlage, 8 June
- 1899. . Mary Moore to Mater, 23 Dec.
- 1899 . See, for example, The Natal Witness, 25 Dec., editorial
- Schreiner , O. 1923 . Thoughts on South Africa Johannesburg See (repr. 1976), chapters 2, 4, 6, 7 for a reasonable study of the ‘Boer’. Yet, despite her pro-Boer sympathies, Schreiner is reputed to have said that they had a ‘better conscience for lying than any other race’. Quoted by Revd. John Allsop, Wesleyan missionary, The Natal Witness, 17 Dec. 1899
- 1899. . Mary Moore to Mater, 17 Dec. Several regiments of Indian Ghoorkas were employed at Modder River. This caused ‘disgust’ there after Chamberlain's statement that no coloured troops should be employed in South Africa. See The Natal Witness, 16 Dec. 1899
- Warwick , P. 1983 . Black People and the South African War 1899–1902 Johannesburg For a full account of African involvement in the war, see
- 1899. . The Natal Witness, 16 Dec. See also Pakenham, Boer War, 224–5
- 1899. . Mary Moore to Mater, 23 Dec.
- In particular, the Natal Carbineers, the Natal Mounted Rifles and the Umvoti Mounted Rifles
- 1995 . R. Morrell, ‘Military Matters in the Natal Midlands 1880–1920’ (Paper, South African Historical Society Conference, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Morrell has explored the relationship between the military and concepts of masculinity as cultivated at boys' schools. The carry-over of attitudes to girls' schools is well worth exploring as a gender issue
- Gathorne-Hardy , J. 1979 . The Public School Phenomenon 209 – 18 . London (esp. See also P. Randall, Little England on the Veld: The English Private School System in South Africa (Johannesburg, 1983)
- See Vietzen, Girls' Education in Natal, xi-xii and 329
- 1899. . Mary Moore to Mater and Chick, 21 Oct.
- At various times Moore suspected pupils, refugees, even a housekeeper, of being Boer spies
- 1899. . Mary Moore to Mater, 5 Nov.
- 1998. . There was less minute detail in her description of later battles, presumably because Buller placed an embargo on news after Colenso. Personal interview, Gilbert Torlage, 8 June
- 1899. . Mary Moore to Mater, 19 Nov. Wykeham School was the first girls' school in Pietermaritzburg to have a shooting team, though others did follow
- 1899. . Mary Moore to Mater, 25 Nov.
- 1899. . Mary Moore to Mater, 23 Dec.
- 1898. . Mary Moore to Mater, 22 July This was the site at which the Boers had defeated the British in 1881
- 1900 . Mary Moore to Mater, 5 July and 3 Aug. 1900. Though she asked them to return it to her with ‘Miss Dimmock’ from St Anne's who was on holiday in England, the diary is unfortunately not in the Mary Moore collection
- 1900. . Mary Moore to Mater, 3 Aug.
- 1899. . Mary Moore to Mater, 29 Oct. A Gatling and a Maxim were different kinds of American-invented machine guns
- Parle , J. 1995 . South African Historical Journal , 33 : 33 – 4 . There is a growing literature on colonial women and imperialism. See, for example, ‘History, She Wrote: A Reappraisal of Dear Louisa in the 1990s’
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