Scars Upon My Heart
Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War
$30.15
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
3 July 2006
Summary
“Your battle wounds are scars upon my heart,” wrote Vera Brittain in a poem to her beloved brother, four days before he died in June 1918. The rediscovery of TESTAMENT OF YOUTH has reminded a new generation of the bitter sufferings of women as well as men in the terrible madness of the First World War. This, the first anthology of women war poets for over sixty years, will come as a surprise to many. It shows, for example, that women were writing protest poetry before Wilfred Owen and Siegfri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844082254 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844082253 |
| Author: | Catherine Reilly |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 3 July 2006 |
| Weight: | 137g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 13mm |
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About The Author
Catherine Reilly
Catherine Reilly was born in Stretford and educated in Manchester, held an M.Litt. from Oxford University and was a specialist on the poetry of the two world wars. She died, aged 80, in September 2005.
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