10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUNITIONETTE»
Discover the use of
munitionette in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
munitionette and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Borderlines: Genders and Identities in War and Peace, 1870-1930
Various means were employed to exorcise these fears, such as the use of
reassuring metaphors, the adoption of the charming diminutive munitionette,
which bore an uncanny resemblance to the term midinette (the Parisian
seamstress, ...
Gillian Barge Munitionette/Sir William Crookes Jo Cameron Brown Munitionetto
Helen Chadwick Munitionette Mary Chater Munitionette Paola Dionisotti
Munrtionette/Hiram Maxim Maria Friedman Murvtionette/Clara Haber Jenny
Galloway ...
3
Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and ...
Few were strangers to waged work, for in prewar France, some kind of paid
employment was nearly universal among the daughters of the industrial
proletariat.6 Although popular images of the munitionette focused public attention
on the ...
4
English Historical Linguistics 2006: Lexical and semantic change
suffragette (1906); poetette (1913) 'rare'; munitionette (1915) 'Brit. colloq. Now
hist.'; farmerette (1918) 'orig. and chiefly U.S.'; yeomanette (1918) 'U.S. colloq. (
now Hist.)'; undergraduette (1919) 'colloq. (now rare)'; usherette (1925); tapette ...
Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena, Richard Dury, 2008
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The American Philatelist
On this same cover is a pair of the I sen orange brown Kerchiefed Munitionette
with the same postmark as on the cover with the complete set. I am very
dissatisfied with this "cancellation" (20.1.22) as it leaves a lot to be desired. 2 sen
brown ...
American Philatelic Society
The minute Letty Edginton becomes a munitionette in the Royal Woolwich Arsenal her life changes for ever.
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Cf.:munitionette. A female worker on munitions: journalistic: WW1. OED Sup. cites
Daily Sketch, 19 Nov. 1915. Ex:munitions. The production of munitions; munition-
work: coll.: from late 1915. The Ministry of Munitions was created in mid-1915.
By 1917, an experienced 'munitionette' earned twice as much as a woman in the
clothing trade. After strikes and disturbances in 1917, women workers were
granted at least one day off per week. The British trade union leader, Mary
Macarthur ...
Ian J. Cawood, David McKinnon-Bell, 2002
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Women in the First World War
... Mrs Helen 11 Grantham Constabulary 31 Great Eastern Railway 36 Gretna,
His Majesty's Factory 37,40 Gretna Munitionette 40 Grouitch, Mabel 11 Gurney,
Sarah Gamzu 60 Haldane Reforms 15 Haverfield, the Hon. Evelina 7 Henham
Hall, ...
Neil R. Storey, Molly Housego, 2010
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Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First ...
... especially as the war progressed, were overwhelmingly accustomed to paid
manual labor. In this, land army work was similar to the munitions industry, which
was subject to propaganda campaigns emphasizing the "lady munitionette.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUNITIONETTE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
munitionette is used in the context of the following news items.
Niagara connection made to world's first military tank
“Our original intention was to have representatives of the Tritton, Wilson and Rigby family along with the daughter of a munitionette at the ... «Welland Tribune, Apr 15»
Berwick 900: Our contribution to First World War
Ellen married a Sergeant Mackie of the King's Own Scottish Borders and became a “munitionette” in the huge munitions works at Gretna. «Berwick Today, Mar 15»
South Tyneside World War One exhibition in line for national award
Lizzie of Stainton Street, South Shields, worked as a munitionette also played for a ladies football team. So too did Mary Lyons of Jarrow who is ... «ChronicleLive, Jan 15»
Scottish Football Museum to tribute First World War with display
The exhibit also explores the impact of the war on football back home in Scotland with a display on the Munitionette football teams, created by ... «stv.tv, Nov 14»
Munitionette relatives proud of their WW1 effort
Gertrude became a munitionette, one of an army of 950 000 women who kept the men at the front supplied with shells to take on and ultimately ... «ITV News, Jul 14»
Poignant reminders of lives lost in wartime
You can even have your photograph taken as a munitionette. n Home of Heroes: South Tyneside in the First World War runs at South Shields ... «Shields Gazette, Jul 14»
Youngest England player... at just 14
Mary played for Palmer's shipyard side who were the Munitionette cup winners the year after the war ended. The team's story is told in The ... «Shields Gazette, Mar 14»
First World War: Around the war in a handful of objects
'Munitionette' model (ceramic model of female munition worker). 94. Hospital mementos. 95. Telegram. 96. Commonwealth War Graves ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 14»
Unlikely pioneers of the pitch: WWI female workers turned …
Large crowds flocked to watch the matches and people remarked on the fact that many munitionette players had yellow faces and a shock of ... «Express.co.uk, Aug 13»
On This Weekend In Football: Blyth Spartans Munition Ladies Win …
On This Weekend In Football: Blyth Spartans Munition Ladies Win The Munitionette's Cup. Posted on May 17, 2013 in Features, Main Features | Comments Off ... «Daisy Cutter, May 13»
