Remapping the Home Front: Locating Citizenship in British Women's Great War Fiction

World War I witnessed the unprecedented involvement of British civilians in the realities of waging battle. With the battlefields just across the Channel, soldiers could quickly return home on leave and women could easily go to the front as nurses or observers. And British citizens faced the new and too frequently consummated threat of enemy air raids. In this text, Debra Rae Cohen explores how such developments influenced four women writers - Violet Hunt, Rose Macaulay, Stella Benson and Rebecca West - in producing new kinds of war stories told from women's perspectives: stories from the home front.