‘Without methods’: three female authors visiting the Western Front

Abstract

and examines how these writers reflected and negotiated in their writing their status as eyewitnesses to the First World War. In a male dominated world, the presence of women writers at the front was unusual. These three authors wrote about their condition as "other" in a world that had been traditionally secluded for them, and had to negotiate the strategies they would resort to in order to portray the conflict.