Women's Autobiographies on the Age of First World War

This bibliography focuses on women's autobiographies, diaries and memoirs (as well as a few letter connections). These authors participated in and/or lived through various, Western armed conflict and wrote about their experiences in English, French, German or Russian.

The most important wars for this period include:

  • First World War (1914–18)
  • Russian Civil War (1917–22)
  • Irish War of Independence and Civil War (1919–23)

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Farmborough, Florence. With the Armies of the Tsar: A Nurse at the Russian Front, 1914-18. New York: Stein and Day, 1974.
Farnsworth, Beatrice. Aleksandra Kollontai: Socialism, Feminism, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. The Women's Victory and After: Personal Reminiscences, 1911-1918. London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1920.
Fitzroy, Yvonne. With the Scottish Nurses in Roumania. London: John Murray, 1918.
Friedmann, Berta Allatini. Ricordi e Impressioni, 1915-1919. Livorno: S. Belforte & C., 1919.
Furse, Katharine. Hearts and Pomegranates: The Story of Forty-Five Years, 1875-1920. London: Peter Davies, 1940.
Gerhalter, Li, and Christa Hämmerle. Krieg-Politik-Schreiben: Tagebücher von Frauen (1918-1950). Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2015.
Giacomelli, Antonietta. Dal Diario di una Samaritana: Ai Nostri Soldati e alle loro Infermiere. Milano: Solmi, 1917.
Giacomelli, Antonietta. Vigilie (1914-1918). Firenze: R. Bemporad, 1919.
Gleichen, Helena. Contacts and Contrasts. London: John Murray, 1940.
Gwynne-Vaughan, Dame Helen. Service with the Army. London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd., 1941.
Hall, Margaret, Margaret R. Higonnet, and Susan Solomon. Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country: The World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2014.
Hallé, Guy. Là-bas avec ceux qui souffrent. Paris: Garnier, 1917.
Hamilton, Cicely. Life Errant. London: Dent, 1935.
Hancock, Joy Bright. Lady in the Navy: A Personal Reminiscence. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002.
Hari, Mata. The Diary of Mata Hari. North Hollywood, CA: Brandon House, 1967.
Hartney, Harold Evans. Up and at 'Em. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Sons, 1940.
Henry, Elsie, and Clara Cullen. The World Upturning: Elsie Henry's Irish Wartime Diaries, 1913-1919. Dublin: Merrion, 2013.
Higonnet, Margaret R. Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I. New York: Plume, 1999.
Huard, Frances Wilson. My Home in the Field of Honour. New York: George H. Doran, 1916.
Hunton, Addie W., and Kathryn M. Johnson. Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Eagle Press, 1920.
Hutton, Isabel Galloway E. With a Woman's Unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol. London: Williams and Norgate, 1928.
Imperial War Museums. Imperial War Museums. London.
Jünger, Ernst. Der Kampf als inneres Erlebnis. Berlin: Mittler, 1922.
Kennard, Dorothy. A Roumanian Diary, 1915, 1916, 1917. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1918.
Kevill, Martin, and Nurse de Trafford. The Personal Diary of Nurse De Trafford 1916-1920. Sussex: Book Guild, 2001.
Kollontai, Alexandra. The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman. New York: Herder and Herder, 1971.
L'Isle, Adèle de. Leaves from a V.A.D.'s Diary. London: Elliot Stock, 1922.
La Grange, Cleḿentine de Chaumon, and Mélanie Lind. Open House in Flanders, 1914-1918: Château de la Motte au Bois. London: John Murray, 1929.
La Motte, Ellen N., and Mary. Borden. Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War, Edited by Margaret R. Higonnet. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 2001.
Lawrence, Helen Bulovsky, Brooke B. Cameron, and Janice C. Collins. Finding Helen: The Letters, Photographs and Diary of a World War I Battlefield Nurse. Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.
Little, Arthur W. From Harlem to the Rhine: The Story of New York's Colored Volunteers. New York: Covici, Friede, 1936.
Lyster, Ian. Among the Ottomans: Diaries from Turkey in World War I. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011.
MacNaughton, Sarah Broom. A Woman's Diary of the War. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1915.

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