Prieto, Sara
‘Without methods’: three female authors visiting the Western Front
First World War Studies. 2015, 6(2): 171-185. doi:10.1080/19475020.2015.1038842
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/68332
DOI: 10.1080/19475020.2015.1038842
ISSN: 1947-5020 (Print)
Abstract: 
This essay focuses on May Sinclair's A Journal of Impressions of Belgium (1915, London: MacMillan), Mary Roberts Rinehart's Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front (1915, New York: George Doran Company) and Edith Wharton's Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (2010, London: Hesperus Press Limited), and examines how these writers reflected and negotiated in their writing their status as eyewitnesses to the First World War. In a male-dominated world, the presence of women writers at the front was unusual. These three authors wrote about their condition as ‘other’ in a world that had been traditionally secluded for them, and had to negotiate the strategies they would resort in order to portray the conflict.
Keywords:Eyewitness accounts, Literary journalism, War reportage, May Sinclair, Edith Wharton, Mary R. Rinehart, First World War literature
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