Fighting for Fame: The ‘Heroines of Pervyse’ and the Disputed Construction of a Public Image

Works Cited

• Atkinson , Diane . 2009 . Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front , London : Preface .
   Google Scholar
• Chisholm , Mairi 1914–16 , Manuscript Diary, 3 vols , Papers of Miss Chisholm Collection, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum , London .
   Google Scholar
• Culley , Margot . 1992 . “ What a Piece of Work Is “Woman”: An Introduction ” . In Autobiography: Feasts of Memory , Edited by: Culley , Margot . 3 – 31 . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press .
   Google Scholar
• Doan , Laura . 2006 . Topsy-Turvydom: Gender Inversion, Sapphism, and the Great War . GLQ , 12:4 : 517 – 42 .
   Google Scholar
• Gilbert , Sandra . 1987 . “ Soldier's Heart: Literary Men, Literary Women, and the Great War ” . In Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars , Edited by: Randolph Higonnet , Margaret , Jenson , Jane , Michel , Sonya and Collins Weitz , Margaret . 197 – 226 . New Haven , CT : Yale University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Gleason , Arthur . 1915 . With the First War Ambulance in Belgium: Young Hilda at the Wars , New York : A.L. Burt .
   Google Scholar
• Higonnet, Margaret , R. 2001 , Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War , Boston : Northeastern University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Hynes , Samuel . 1990 . A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture , London : Bodley .
   Google Scholar
• Kaplan , Laurie 2001 , ‘ “How Funny I Must Look with my Breeches Pulled Down to my Knees”: Nurses’ Memoirs and Autobiographies from the Great War ’, in Aránzazu Usandizaga and Andrew Monnickendam , Dressing Up for War: Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourses and Literature of War , Amsterdam : Rodopi , 1 – 12 .
   Google Scholar
• Macdonald , Lyn . 1993 . The Roses of No Man's Land , London : Penguin .
   Google Scholar
• Marcus , Jane 1989 , ‘ Afterword: Corpus/Corps/Corpse. Writing the Body in/at War ’, in Helen Zeena Smith (Evadne Price) , Not so Quiet … Stepdaughters of War , New York : Feminist Press , 241 – 300 .
   Google Scholar
• Mitton , G.E. (ed.) 1917 , The Cellar-House of Pervyse: A Tale of Uncommon Things from the Journals and Letters of the Baroness T'Serclaes and Mairi Chisholm [1916] , London : Black .
   Google Scholar
• Ouditt , Sharon . 1994 . Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War , London : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Potter , Janet . 2005 . Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914–1918 , Oxford : Clarendon Press .
   Google Scholar
• Rinehart , Mary Roberts . 1915 . Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front , New York : George Doran .
   Google Scholar
• Schultz , Jane E. 2001 . “ Performing Genres: Sarah Edmonds’ Nurse and Spy and the Case of the Cross-Dressed Text ” . In Dressing Up for War: Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourses and Literature of War , Edited by: Usandizaga , Aránzazu and Monnickendam , Andrew . 73 – 91 . Amsterdam : Rodopi .
   Google Scholar
• Sinclair , May 1915 , ‘ Nurses at the Front ’, Daily Chronicle , 2 February , clipping in the papers of the Baroness de T'Serclaes Collection, ETS/5, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum , London .
   Google Scholar
• Thurstan , Violetta . 1915 . Field Hospital and Flying Column, Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister , London : Putnam's Sons .
   Google Scholar
• T'Serclaes , Baroness de [Mrs Elsie Knocker] n.d ., Miscellaneous Papers, Baroness de T'Serclaes Collection, ETS/3, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum , London .
   Google Scholar
• T'Serclaes , Baroness de 1914–15 , Manuscript Diary, 3 vols, Baroness de T'Serclaes Collection, ETS/1, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum , London .
   Google Scholar
• T'Serclaes , Baroness de 1964 , Flanders and Other Fields: The Memoirs of the Baroness de T'Serclaes M.M ., London : George Harrap .
   Google Scholar
• Tylee , Claire . 1990 . The Great War and Women's Consciousness: Images of Militarism and Womanhood in Women's Writings , 1914 – 64 . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press .
   Google Scholar
• Usandizaga , Aránzazu and Andrew Monnickendam 2001 , Dressing Up for War: Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourses and Literature of War , Amsterdam : Rodopi .
   Google Scholar
• Vanleene , Patrick . 2001 . Op naar de Grote Oorlog—Mairi, Elsie en de anderen in Flanders Fields , Koksijde : De Klaproos .
   Google Scholar
• Wharton , Edith . 1915 . Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort , New York : Scribner's .
   Google Scholar