Cricket Witness No 4 - Women at the WIcket

19 Introduction ‘It gradually got that you were free’ 1 Imperial War Museum (IWM), ‘The Girls Behind the Men Behind the Guns’, (1977, Cat. No. 3162). 2 Sheridan Morley, Gladys Cooper: A Biography (New York, 1979), 207. 3 IWM, ‘The Girls Behind the Men Behind the Guns’. Family information gathered from 1911 and 1921 national censuses. 4 Jenny Gould ‘Women’s Military Services in First World War Britain’, in Margaret Higonnet et al., Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars (Yale, 1987), 114-125; Lucy Noakes, ‘War and Peace’, in Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska (ed.), Women in Twentieth-Century Britain (London, 2001), 307-9. 5 IWM, ‘Women’s Royal Air Force’, (1918, Cat. No. 1107-2). 6 Angela Woollacott, On Her Their Lives Matter: Munitions Workers in the Great War (California, 1994), 19; Douglas Gill and Gloden Dallas, ‘Mutiny at Etaples in 1917’, Past and Present 69 (1975), 88-112. 7 W.G. Grace, Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections (London, 1899), 219. 8 Woollacott, Munitions Workers , 26-7; Deirdre Beddoe, Back to Home and Duty: Women between the Wars, 1918-1939 (Glasgow, 1989), 48. 9 Woollacott, Munitions Workers , 1-25, 136-8; Arthur Marwick, Women at War: 1914-18 (Glasgow, 1977), 51-69. 10 The Crittall Magazine (January 1925), 18; Mark Sheridan, ‘The Bombshell: More than Munitions 1917-1919’, (unpublished MA Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2016), 5-31. 11 Bournville Works Magazine (BWM) 12:1 (January 1914), 26; (May 1919), 120; Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald (6 March 1920), 6. 12 T.A. B. Corley, Quaker Enterprise in Biscuits (London, 1972), 184-188; Huntley and Palmer’s, Our Work in the Great War and Reconstruction (Reading, 1920), 14; Martin Bishop, Bats, Balls and Biscuits: A Brief History of Cricket at the Reading Biscuit Factory (Huddersfield, 2008), 81-84, 109-114. 13 Janet Lee, War Girls: The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in the Great War (Manchester, 2005), 10. 14 Henry Baird, ‘Cricket in the Army’ in Pelham Warner, Imperial Cricket (London, 1912), 479; The Harefield Park Boomerang (December 1917), 21-3. 15 Belfast Newsletter (21 December 1914), 3. 16 Paulina 42 (St Paul’s Girls’ School archive, 1918), 7; 43 (1918), 9-11; Alison Stevens, ‘Women and Cricket 1880-1926’, (unpublished MA thesis, Royal Holloway, September 2003), 26. 17 Hastings and St. Leonards Observer (28 July 1917), 4; Jean Williams, A Game for Rough Girls? A History of Women’s Football in Britain (London, 2003), 32. 18 Jack Williams, Cricket and England: A Cultural and Social History of the Interwar Years (London, 1999), 1-14; A. Bateman, Cricket, Literature and Culture: Symbolising the Nation, Destabilising Empire (Surrey, 2009), 33-44. 19 Stephen Chalke, Summer’s Crown: The Story of Cricket’s County Championship (Bath, 2015), 99-113; Simon Sweetman, Dimming of the Day: The Cricket Season of 1914 (Cardiff, 2015), 101-117. 20 Fiona Skillen, Women, Sport and Modernity in Interwar Britain (Frankfurt, 2013), 54-97; Judy Threlfall-Sykes, ‘A History of English Women’s Cricket, 1880-1939’ (unpublished PhD Thesis, De Montfort University, October 2015), 225-9. 21 Max Arthur, Forgotten Voices of the Great War (London, 2002), 171. 22 Beddoe, Back to Home , 24-48. As a percentage of those employed. 23 See Caitriona Beaumont, Housewives and Citizens: Domesticity and the Women’s Movement in England, 1928-64 (Manchester, 2013), 3-9. 24 London Daily News (14 May 1903), 6. 25 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer (6 May 1937), 8.