Authors: Virginia Nicholson
Business and Professional
–; friendshipwith Vera
Women,
Brittain, –, , , –;
Irons, Evelyn,
background, ; relations with
Irvine, Miss (tea-taster),
Harry Pearson, –, ; single
state, –, ; appearance, ;
Jackson, Polly, Rose and Martha,
friendshipwith Cicely
Hamilton, ; writings, , ,
Jaeger, Muriel,
; refused unaccompanied
James, Henry,
access to hotel, –; fictional
Jameson, Storm,
heroines, ; character and
Jenkins, Elizabeth, , ,
appearance, ; death, , ,
–, ,
; and children, ; Vera
John, Augustus,
Brittain praises, ; on
John, Gwen, ,
predicament of young women,
Jones, Gwyneth Wansbrough, ,
; on knowing ecstasy, ;
,
denies failure in marriage,
Jones, May (Margaret):
–; sense of ageing, ; on
background,
xiii,
–, , ; happiness, ; ‘Are Spinsters
relations with Philip, –; and
Frustrated?’, n, –, ,
Philip’s absence and death on
;
The Crowded Street
, , ; active service, , , ; single
Poor Caroline
, –, ;
South
state,
Riding
, , ,
Jourdain, Margaret,
homosexuality, , –, –
hostels, –,
Kenya,
housework, –
Kilroy, Alix,
Howes, Margaret, –
King, Viva,
humanitarians, –
Kingsley, Mary,
Hutton, Laura, , , , ;
The
Knight, Miss D.E.,
Single Woman andHer Emotional
Knight, Lynn, –
Problems
, , , –
Lang, Elsie M.:
British Women in the
Ibsen, Henrik,
Twentieth Century
, –
Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The
Langley, Amy,
xiii,
–
(film), n
Larcher, Dorothy,
Institution of Locomotive
Lawrence, D.H., , –;
The
Engineers,
Fox
,
International Alliance for Women’s
Lawrence, T.E.,
Suffrage,
lawyers: women as, –
Index
Lehmann, Rosamond, , ;
Maclean, Gertrude, –
Invitation to the Waltz
,
McNeill, Dorelia (Dorothy),
Leighton, Roland, , –, ,
Madden, Monica,
, , ,
magazines (women’s), –
Leitch, Cecil,
Mann, Gertrude,
lesbians: adopt male names, ;
see
Mann, Julia,
also
homosexuality Mannin, Ethel, –,
Leslie, Dr Murray, , , –,
marriage: age,
xi;
and social class,
xiii;
expectations and Lessing, Doris:
Under My Skin
,
preparations for, –, , ;
Lindsay, Olive, ,
examined and redefined, ;
Litchfield, Henrietta (
neé
Darwin; Darwin on, –; and women’s
‘Ettie’), ,
role, –, –; second, ;
Lloyd, Dorothy,
advertising for, –
Lloyd George, David, n
Married Women’s Property Act
Lloyd George, Lady Megan,
(), –
Lodge, Eleanor,
Marryat, Mary (agony aunt),
London Stock Exchange, ,
Marshall, Dorothy,
Marshall, Sheina,
loneliness, –, , –,
Martin, Lieutenant Will, –
Marx, Enid,
Lorimer (buyer),
Mason-MacFarlane family, –
Loughlin, Dame Anne,
Mason-MacFarlane, Carlyon:
love: among women, –,
relations with Gertrude Caton-
–;
see also
homosexuality; Thompson, –, –; war
sex
service, –; killed in Egypt,
Lowther, ‘Toupie’,
–, , –,
Luck, Montagu, ,
Mason-MacFarlane, Dr David,
Ludovici, Anthony M.:
Lysistrata,
Mason-MacFarlane, Mrs David,
or Woman’s Future andFuture
–
Woman
, –, –,
Mason-MacFarlane, Noe¨l,
masturbation, –
McAllister, Anne,
Matheson, Hilda,
MacArthur, Ellen,
Matrimonial Post andFashionable
MacArthur, John:
Shall Flappers
Marriage Advertiser
,
Rule?
,
Matrimonial Times
, –
McCulloch, Nellie (Mrs Richard
matrons (hospital), –
Aldington), , –
Mayor, F.M., ;
The Rector’s
Mackay, Dr Helen, –
Daughter
, –
Mackinnon, Alice,
mental illness, –
Index
Miall, Agnes:
The Bachelor Girl’s
Navarro, Dorothy de (
neé
Hoare),
Guide to Everything – or The Girl
,
on her Own
, –
Navarro, Toty de,
middle classes: women,
Naylor, Nell,
Miles, Margaret,
Neill, A.S.,
Millard, Shirley,
Neish, Rosalie: ‘How to Attract
Milne, Mary, –
Him’,
Milton, Betty,
Neville-Rolfe, Sybil:
Why Marry?
, Minack Theatre, Cornwall,
–
Mistinguett (i.e. Jeanne Marie
New Women, –, ,
Bourgeois),
New Zealand: emigration to and
mistresses,
life in, , –, –
Mitford, Jessica, –
Nightingale, Florence, ,
Monroe, Jessie, –
NN, Miss, –
Moore, Doris Langley,
The
North, Marianne, ,
Technique of the Love Affair
(by ‘A Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth,
Gentlewoman’), –
Viscount,
Morrison, Carrie,
nursemaids
see
nannies and Mosley, Sir Oswald,
nursemaids
motherhood: women’s desire for,
nursing, –,
–,
motor cars and motoring,
office and clerical work, –,
Mullard, Julie, ,
–
Muriel (Winifred Haward’s friend),
Oldfield, Sybil,
Olive (Mary Cocker’s friend),
–
Nairn, Miss,
Olivier, Sir Laurence,
Nally, Gwen,
orgasm,
nannies and nursemaids, –
Over Thirty Association,
National Council of Women’s
Owen, Wilfred: ‘Dulce et
Emigration Committee,
Decorum Est’,
National Spinsters Pensions
Oxford University: women at,
Association, , , , ,
–, –, ,
,
National Union of ShopAssistants,
Pankhurst, Christabel, ,
Pankhurst, Emmeline, –,
National Union of Women
parents: care of, –
Teachers,
Parliament: women admitted as
National Union of Women’s
members, –,
Suffrage Societies,
Partridge, Frances, ,
Index
Patch, Miss (of Essex), ,
Raverat, Gwen,
Patmore, Brigit, ,
Rayne, Ethel (
neé
Perham), –
patriotism: and death, –
Rayne, Major (Margery Perham’s
Paul, Brenda Dean,
brother-in-law), –
Pearson, Harry, –, , n
Read, Margaret,
Pease, Miss (of Leeds),
xi-xii
Redcliffe, Miss L.,
pensions, , , –, ,
Reid, Nano,
–,
religion: fails to comfort war
Perham, Edgar,
bereaved,
Perham, Dame Margery, –,
Renault, Mary (i.e. Mary
–;
Josie Vine
, ,
Challans), n, ,
Perowne, Stewart,
Representation of the People Act
Petrie, Sir Flinders, –
(),
pets, –
Reynolds, Miss,
Philip(May Jones’s boyfriend), –
Rhondda, Margaret Haig,
Pilkington, Margaret,
Viscountess,
Plummer, Hyacinth,
Rickards, Dr Esther,
Plunkett, Eileen,
Rignall, Elizabeth (Lizzie),
xiii,
politics: women in, –
–,
Pollens, Bertram,
Rinder, Olive,
Pope, Jessie: ‘War Girls’,
Roberts, Miss (of Liverpool),
‘Poppy’ and ‘Honey’,
Roberts, Robert,
Potter, Frank,
Robertson, Muriel,
Potter, Maggie,
Robertson, Nanny (with Eyre
Potts, Doreen, –, , –
family),
Power, Rhoda,
Robson, Dame Flora,
Pretyman, General Sir George,
Royal Society,
Priestley, J.B.,
Royden, Maude: preaching, , ;
Prior, Miss (of Essex), ,
speaks for single women, ; on
professions: barriers to women
sublimation of sexual impulse,
removed, –
; on attachment to pets, ;
Punch
(magazine), , , ,
on love, –, ;
campaigning and appeals, –;
Quinell, Sue,
Sex andCommonsense
,
Russell, Bertrand,
Rathbone, Irene, , ,
Russell, Dr Dorothy,
–, ;
October
, ;
They
Russell-Smith, Enid,
Call It Peace
, ;
Was There a
Summer?
, –, ;
We That
Sackville-West, Edward,
Were Young
, , ,
Sackville-West, Vita,
Index
Salter, Arthur, –
Spark, Muriel:
The Prime of Miss
Sapphism
see
homosexuality
Jean Brodie
, –, , ,
Sayers, Dorothy L.,
Speed, Doris,
Scharlieb, Dame Mary, , , ;
Spicer, Eulalie,
The Bachelor Woman andHer
spinsters and spinsterhood: and
Problems
, –,
post-war ‘Lost Generation’,
xi-
schoolmistresses
see
teaching
xiv;
popular image of, –, Schreiner, Olive,
–; in literature, –, –,
science: women in, –
, –; emotional and
Seear, Nancy,
personal situation, –, ;
Seil, island of (Scotland),
social position, –; pensions,
Sergeant, Dorothy,
, , –, , –,
servants (domestic), –, –
; as conscious choice, ;
sex: and free love, –, , ;
solitary living, –, ,
social attitudes to, , –;
–, ; insurance benefits
and single women, –, ,
and financial help, ; and sex,
–;
see also
homosexuality –; and self-sacrifice, ;
Sex Discrimination Act (),
and new freedom, –; clubs
Sex Disqualification Removal Act
and organisations, –;
(),
finding happiness, –;
Sharp, Dame Evelyn,
reassessed, ;
see also
bachelor Shaw, George Bernard, ,
girl
Sheldon, Derbyshire,
spiritualism,
shopwork, –
Spiritualists’ National Union,
sisters, –
sport, –
Sitwell, Dame Edith,
Spring Rice, Margery:
Working-Sitwell, Sir Osbert,
Class Wives: Their Health and
Six Point Group,
Conditions
,
Skillicorn, Alice,
Stack, Mollie,
Skrine, Marjorie, –
Stark, Flora,
Smieton, Dame Mary,
Stark, Freya:
Traveller’s Prelude
, Smith, Doris,
Smith, Harriet,
Starkie, Enid, , , –
Snowball, Betty,
Stead, Christina:
For Love Alone
, Society for the Propagation of the
–
Gospel,
Stephens, Leslie,
Soil Association,
Stephenson, Hamilton,
Somaliland, –
Stephenson, Isie Russell,
Somme, Battle of the (), ,
Stephenson, Marjory,
Soroptimist Clubs,
Stevenson, Sylvia:
Surplus
, –
Index
Stopes, Marie: and sexual openness,
Underwood, Florence,
; advice on adoption by single
Universal Aunts, –
women, ; Elizabeth Goudge
universities: women dons, –
and, ; on unmarried women
upper classes: women, –
and sex, –; and lesbianism,
Uranianism
see
homosexuality –, ;
MarriedLove
,
Streatfeild, Noe¨l, , ,
Vachell, Horace Annesley, &n
suffragettes, , –, –