Millions Like Us (79 page)

page 97.
‘As Barbara Cartland said …’: BC/YO.

pages 98–9.
‘twenty-four-year-old Anne Popham …’: AP/PP.

page 99.
‘We all had miserable days …’: KW/A.

page 99.
‘We were much more accepting …’: JT/A.

page 99.
‘You just go on with your life …’: TR/A.

page 99.
‘You just grin and bear it …’: author interview with Vera Roberts, 2008.

page 100.
‘In Coventry and Warwickshire …’: Taylor,
Heroines of World War II
.

pages 100–101.
‘Joan Kelsall still lives …’: JK/A.

page 101.
‘Alma Merritt and her family …’: letter from Mrs Merritt to the author.

page 101.
‘Joyce Hoffman’s family …’: letter from Mrs Hoffman to the author.

pages 101–2.
‘The Wall family …’: letter from Phillip Wall to the author
.

page 102.
‘Clara Milburn arose …’: CM/MM.

page 102.
‘like old sheets …’: in Angela Hewins,
Mary, after the Queen
.

page 102.
‘I coped by getting angry …’: JK/A.

page 102.
‘Cora Styles was sixteen …’: CW/A.

page 102.
‘Marguerite Patten reserves …’: MP/A.

pages 102–3.
‘Mrs Milburn went out …’: CM/MM.

pages 103–4.
‘Joan Wyndham had fallen …’: JW/LB.

page 104.
‘Mary Wesley’s wartime …’: see Patrick Marnham,
Wild Mary: The Life of Mary Wesley.

page 104.
‘Phyllis Noble noticed …’: PW/CAW.

pages 104–5.
‘In the London underground …’: Harrisson,
Living though the Blitz.

page 105.
‘I had seen a couple …’: FF/CHELSEA.

Chapter 4: ‘Ready to Win the War’

pages 106–7.
‘In the summer of 1941 …’: author interview with Kaye Bastin, née Emery, 2008.

page 108.
‘Pip Beck joined the ARP …’: PB/PP.

page 109.
‘Mass Observation offered the case-history …’: Harrisson,
Living through the Blitz
.

page 109.
‘Sometimes it is the small …’: HF/L’POOL.

page 109.
‘Barbara Cartland put in a plea … ’: BC/YO.

pages 109–10.
‘Nella Last reached …’: NL/NLW.

pages 110–11.
‘Frances Faviell …’: FF/CHELSEA; interview with Mrs Pamela Hanbury.

page 111.
‘Nella Last’s reflections …’: NL/NLW.

page 113.
‘We all feel very strongly …’:
Daily Sketch
, 21 March 1941.

page 113.
‘The Labour Party conference …’:
The Times
, 15 April 1941.

page 113.
‘The army had a sleazy reputation …’: see Noakes,
Women in the British Army
.

page 114.
‘In the end …’: Mary Grieve,
Millions Made My Story
.

page 115.
‘Edith Summerskill …’: from ‘Conscription and Women’, in
The Fortnightly
, March 1942.

page 115.
‘Most of us felt …’: FF/CHELSEA.

page 115.
‘For a housewife …’: cited in Penny Summerfield,
Women Workers in the Second World War: Production and Patriarchy in Conflict
.

page 115.
‘Monica Littleboy’s experience …’: MS/MEM.

pages 115–16.
‘Mrs M. in the Midlands …’: cited in Townsend and Townsend,
War Wives
.

page 116.
‘Young women like Phyllis Noble …’: PW/CAW; PW/CAA.

pages 117–20.
‘One of these young women …’: DB/GIRLS.

pages 120–23.
‘Doris, a sunny-tempered …’: DW/DV.

pages 123–7.
‘Twenty-one-year-old Mavis Lever …’: MB/A;
The Bletchley Park War Diaries July 1939–August 1945
. See also
www.royalnavy.mod.uk/history/battles/
.

pages 127–9.
‘After her narrow escape …’: LK/MD.

pages 130–33.
‘For her part …’: DW/DV.

page 131:
‘A frequent wartime catastrophe …’; Tottenham Court Road: BBC/PW, article ID: A2429561; Sheffield: see Edie Rutherford in Koa Wing, ed.,
Our Longest Days
; Truro: Charmian Martin’s war memories at
www.thisiscornwall.co.uk
; Cairo: see Grenfell,
The Time of My Life
.

page 131:
‘No man wants to come home …’: see Waller and Vaughan-Rees,
Women in Wartime
.

page 132.
‘When Doffy Brewer left home …’: DB/GIRLS.

pages 132–3.
‘Barbara Cartland …’: BC/YO.

page 133.
‘One ATS officer …’: cited in de Courcy,
Debs at War
.

page 133.
‘Jenny Nicholson, the author …’: Jenny Nicholson,
Kiss the Girls Goodbye
.

page 134.
‘every troop locker …’: see John Costello,
Love, Sex and War 1939–1945
.

page 134.
‘thereby ruining …’: MP-D/NY.

page 135.
‘clothes-conscious Madeleine Henrey …’: MH/LONDON.

page 135.
‘It’s getting easy …’: NL/NLW.

pages 135–6.
‘Phyllis Noble’s job …’: PW/CAW.

pages 136–8.
‘For Helen Forrester …’: HF/LIME.

page 138.
‘As one woman said …’: cited in Longmate,
How We Lived Then
.

pages 138–9.
‘Newlywed Kaye Bastin …’: author interview with Kaye Bastin, née Emery, 2008.

page 139.
‘There was Mrs Louis …’: cited in May Rainer,
Emma’s Daughter
; this unpublished memoir is held in the collection of working-class autobiographies at Brunel University.

pages 139–40.
‘There was Elizabeth Jane Howard …’: EJH/A; EJH/S.

page 140.
‘Margaret Perry …’: Margaret Perry’s untitled memoir is held in the collection of working-class autobiographies at Brunel University.

pages 140–41.
‘Barbara Cartland worked …’: BC/YO.

Chapter 5: ‘Your Country Welcomes Your Services’

pages 142–3.
‘At Ham Spray House …’: FP/PW.

page 144.
‘Christian Oldham, the convent-educated …’: CL/A; CL/HAT.

page 145.
‘An ATS recruit recalled …’: Sylvia Mundahl Harris,
The View from the Cookhouse Floor
.

page 145.
‘The knickers were long-legged …’: FM/A; JT/A.

page 145.
‘Just imagine …’: cited in Vera Lynn with Robin Cross and Jenny de Gex,
Unsung Heroines: The Women Who Won the War
.

page 146.
‘A dazzling Wren …’: see
The Wartime Scrapbook: On the Home Front 1939 to 1945
, compiled by Robert Opie.

page 146.
‘Clara Milburn and her husband …’: CM/MM.

page 146.
‘
The Daily Mail
invited readers …’: cited in Cooper,
Trumpets from the Steep
.

page 146.
‘Vera Roberts trained …’: author interview with Vera Roberts, 2008.

pages 146–7.
‘she would immediately stride …’: cited in Nicholson,
Kiss the Girls Goodbye
.

page 147.
‘It still wasn’t …’: see M-O Bulletin on
Women in Public Houses
, in Sheridan, ed.,
Wartime Women
.

page 147.
‘Those ATS girls …’: cited in Hylton,
Their Darkest Hour
.

page 147.
‘nothing but a league …’: see Noakes,
Women in the British Army
.

page 147.
‘officers’ groundsheets …’: examples given in Hylton,
Their Darkest Hour
.

page 148.
‘In her account …’: Hilary Wayne,
Two Odd Soldiers.

page 148.
‘I never had any trouble …’: cited in de Courcy,
Debs at War
.

page 148.
‘Eileen Rouse came back …’: author interview with Eileen Morgan, née Rouse, 2008.

page 148.
‘For Pat Bawland …’: author interview with Pat Evans, née Bawland, 2008.

page 149.
‘Flo Mahony’s feelings …’: FM/A.

pages 149–52.
‘Twenty-year-old Jean McFadyen …’: JP/A.

pages 152–3
‘Kay Mellis was another …’: KW/A.

page 153.
‘Another propagandising …’: Vita Sackville-West,
The Women’s Land Army
.

pages 153–4.
‘Shirley Joseph described …’: Shirley Joseph,
If Their Mothers Only Knew: An Unofficial Account of Life in the Women’s Land Army
.

page 154.
‘Monica Littleboy held out …’: MS/MEM.