The lengthening war : the Great War diary of Mabel Goode

Goode, Mabel2016

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The diary captures the authors' growing disillusionment with the war, as it gradually encroaches on her life. She starts with great excitement, realising its importance but expecting a short struggle, blaming treachery and incompetence initially but gets increasingly disheartened and eventually stops in 1916. The entries show growth of total war, experiences of her two brothers in service, personal sacrifice and patriotism, reactions to casualty lists, women entering work, steady collapse of domestic service, reflections on recognisable events such as Lusitania and on the competence of the government.