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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Matthews, Caroline Twigge. Experiences of a Woman Doctor in Serbia. London: Mills & Boon, 1916.
Mierisch, Helene. Kamerad Schwester 1914–1919. Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang, 1934.
Millard, Shirley, and Adele Comandini. I Saw Them Die: Diary and Recollections of Shirley Millard. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936.
Mokievskaia-Zubok, Z. S., T. A. Varnek, and M. Bocharnikova. Dobrovolitsy: Sbornik vospominanii. Moscow: Russkii put’, 2014.
Muehlen, Ellen Von zur. In God's Hands: A Noblewoman's Struggle for Survival in War and Revolution. Cornelius, NC: Warren Publishing, 2007.
Myers, Charles S. Shell Shock in France, 1914-1918: Based on a War Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940.
Nowosielska, Zofja. W Huraganie Wojny: Pamietnik Kobiety-Zołnierza. Warsaw: Druk. Literacka, 1929.
Palmer, Svetlana, and Sarah Wallis. Intimate Voices from the First World War. New York: W. Morrow, 2003.
Perduca, Maria Luisa. Un Anno d'Ospedale (giugno 1915-novembre 1916): Note di un' Infermiera. Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1917.
Piłsudska, Aleksandra. Memoirs of Madame Pilsudski. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1940.
Richards, John. "Some Experiences with Colored Soldiers." The Atlantic Monthly (1919): 184-190.
Richer, Marthe. Ma Vie d'Espionne au Service de la France. Paris: Les Éditions de France, 1936.
Rimbaud, Isabelle. In the Whirlpool of War. London: T.F. Unwin, 1918.
Russner, Käthe. Schwesterndienst im Weltkriege: Feldpostbriefe und Tagebuchblätter. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1936.
Sandes, Flora. An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916.
Sarfatti, Margherita. My Fault: Mussolini As I Knew Him. New York: Enigma Books, 2014.
Scamaroni, Marie-Claire. Indomptable et Rebelle : Histoire d'une Vie de 1913 à nos Jours. Paris: Ed. Tirésias, 2004.
Schneider, Carl J., and Dorothy Schneider. Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I. New York: Viking, 1991.
Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley. Shadow-Shapes: The Journal of a Wounded Woman, October 1918-May 1919. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
Sinclair, May. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1915.
Slezkine, Yuri, and Sheila Fitzpatrick. In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Southall, Humphrey. A Vision of Britain Through Time. University of Portsmouth, UK, Department of Geography.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. New York: The Literary Guild, 1933.
Stobart, Mabel Annie St C. Miracles and Adventures: An Autobiography. London: Rider & Co., 1935.
Stobart, M. A. The Flaming Sword in Serbia and Elsewhere. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917.
Teffi, N.A. Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea. New York: New York Review Books, 2016.
Thuliez, Louise. Condemned to Death. London: Methuen & Co., 1934.
Voigt, Frederick A. Combed Out: Reminiscences of the European War. London: Swarthmore Press, 1920.
Von Kurowsky, Agnes, Henry Serrano Villard, and James Nagel. Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary of Agnes von Kurowsky, Her Letters and Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989.
Wharton, Edith. A Backward Glance. London: W. Clowes, 1950.
Wharton, Edith. Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915.
Witherington-Cornioley, Pearl, and Kathryn J. Atwood. Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent In Women of action; Variation: Women of action (Chicago, Ill.). Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2013.
YURLOVA, Marina. Cossack Girl. London: Cassell, 1934.
Yurlova, Marina. Russia Farewell. London: M. Joseph, 1936.
Zakharova, Lidiia. Dnevnik Sestry Miloserdiia: Na Peredovykh Pozitsiiakh. Petrograd : Izdatel'stvo biblioteka "Velikoi Voiny", 1915.

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