This is an seven-volume collection of primary texts each selected and introduced by experts reproducing in facsimile a wealth of materials related to the history of women and warfare in the English-speaking world. The editors are historians and literary scholars with a wealth of publications in women’s writing and war literature. The project focuses for most of its historical range on England (and Britain); it also includes volumes on the United States Australia and Canada. The collection documents women’s historical and literary participation in and commentary on war. It represents the first attempt to examine the variety of roles women have played in war and as critics and commentators on war across all of history into the twentieth century. The project makes a unique and powerful claim about the long history of women’s involvement in war in the English-speaking world|Women and War | History
