Women’s Autobiographies by Author

This site allows users to browse for entries in the Bibliography, Filmography and Webography on "Gender and War since 1600" sorted by

  1. Author/Director of publication or film (ordered alphabetically)
  2. Title of publication or film (ordered alphabetically)
  3. Year of Publication/Release of publication or film (ordered numerically)
  4. Type of Literature (books, book chapters, films, journals, journal articles, magazine articles, newspaper articles, theses, websites, etc.) (ordered by literature types in the listed sequence and then alphabetically)

Users can export their selected list of literature organized by author, title, year of publication or type of literature when they click below on RTF.

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This site allows you to access the collection of women’s autobiographies organized by the last name of the authors. The collection includes autobiographies written by women who actively participated in or lived through an armed conflict covered by the Oxford Handbook Gender and War since 1600 edited by Karen Hagemann (General Editor), Stefan Dudink and Sonya Rose (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). The focus of this collection is the twentieth century as the period during which the relevant autobiographies were published. The included autobiographies are mainly written and/or published in English, French, German or Russian. To search the collection, go to the Keyword Search Page


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Ashwell, Lena. Myself a Player. London: M. Joseph, 1936.
Asquith, Margot, and Mark Bonham Carter. The Autobiography of Margot Asquith. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922.
Avericheva, Sofʹi︠a︡. Dnevnik Razvedchit︠s︡y. Moskva: Voen. izd-vo, 1986.
Bagnold, Enid. A Diary without Dates. London: William Heinemann, 1918.

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