Women's Royal Air Force

The titular story pursues the themes of discovery and the nature of love through a young woman's first sexual encounter with a female prostitute in Amsterdam. A Story of Folding and Unfolding has poignant...

This small, progressive school, which emphasized the study of art, literature, and theatre, was founded and headed by Julia (Mrs Leonard) Huxley , mother of Aldous Huxley and sister of the novelist Mary Augusta Ward

During the Second World War CBR joined the WAAF and was posted to the intelligence operation at Bletchley Park, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, as an Information Officer to decoding intercepted enemy messages.

AS 's mother, Ann Smith , was born in the town of Limavady, Northern Ireland. Raised a Catholic, Ann was the penultimate of seven children, at least two of whom lived in Inverness during...

SACD 's daughter Jean Lena Annette (1912–1997) rose later to the rank of Air Commandant, to head the Women's Royal Air Force , and to be made a Dame. In middle age she married and...

By the early 1960s AB had had two coronaries. Her health had generally been good, though she had spent some months in 1943 flat on her back with a slipped disc, and after months of...

She said she got this assignment by accident: Someone had blundered and confused her with her cousin Barnard Darwin , who was also a novelist. She was relieved to find, when she was somewhere in...

She was the liaison between the ministry and the Women's Land Army , Women's Legion , Voluntary Aid Detachment and others. In her practice as well as in memoranda to Lord Milner , the Secretary...

She had been dissatisfied with the coverage of the suffrage campaign by the daily newspapers, and she felt that a weekly journal was better equipped to give something of a considered opinion because writers would...