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Scars upon my heart : women's poetry and verse of the First World War

2006
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This anthology of women war poets shows that women were writing protest poetry before Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Many of the poems come out of direct experiences of nursing the victims of trench warfare, or the pain of lovers, brothers, sons, lost.
Main title:
Scars upon my heart : women's poetry and verse of the First World War / edited and introduced by Catherine W. Reilly ; with a preface by Judith Kazantzis.
Imprint:
London : Virago, 2006.
Collation:
xxxvi, 144 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 1981.Includes index.
ISBN:
9781844082254 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
2032124
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