The following is a list of the main publications by Sybil Oldfield
Follow the links for more details of each book.
`German Women in the Resistance to Hitler` Essay in Sian Reynolds, ed. Women, State, and Revolution, (Wheatsheaf, Brighton, 1986).
Spinsters of This Parish - The Life and Times of F.M. Mayor and Mary Sheepshanks
(Virago, London, 1984)
Biography of F.M.Mayor (1872-1932), novelist and Mary Sheepshanks (1872-1958), suffragist and pacifist.
Women Against the Iron Fist, Alternatives to Militarism, 1900-1989
(Basil Blackwell, Oxford and Cambridge, Mass. 1989).
Essays on Kate Courtney, Maude Royden, Simone Weil, Virginia Woolf, Sophie Scholl, Christa Wolf, contemporary American women poets and contemporary `Green` voices from Europe.
This Working-day World: Women’s Lives and Culture(s) in Britain 1914-1945 (ed.) (Taylor and Francis, UK and USA, 1994)
Includes essays by divers hands on the weekly wash, women unemployed in the Depression, Women’s Institutes, child refugee rescue, women Fascists and anti-Fascists, women’s teacher training colleges, women in medical laboratories and in Art Schools, women in the BBC and the spinster in women’s fiction.
Collective Biography of Women in Britain, c.1550-c.1900: A select annotated bibliography
(Cassell/Mansell, London and New York, 1999.)
The first and so far the only work of its kind, this bibliography reveals which women's lives were judged worthy of record in Britain by whom and when.
Women Humanitarians - A Biographical Dictionary of British Women Humanitarians active between 1900 and 1950
(Continuum, London and New York, 2001)
Long before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1946, long before the founding of Oxfam, of Amnesty International or of Medecins sans Frontieres, there were women doctors, nurses, political activists, refugee workers, educators, medical researchers, famine and epidemic relief workers, educators, and social and economic reformers who reached out to rescue strangers.
Afterwords: Letters on the Death of Virginia Woolf (editor)
(Rutgers University Press and Edinburgh University Press, May 2005)
Doers of the Word - A Biographical Dictionary of British Women Humanitarians active between 1900 and 1950
(Lewes, 2006)
This is the revised paperback edition of Women Humanitarians (see above.)
The Old Familar Faces - Poems on the experience of ageing
(University of Sussex Print Unit, Brighton 2007)
Anthology with Introduction, edited by Sybil Oldfield and Gwenyth Shaw.
Kindertransport - before and after: Elegy and Celebration
Poems by Lotte Kramer, ed. with an Introduction by Sybil Oldfield.
Jeanie: An `Army of One` – Mrs Nassau Senior - The First Woman in Whitehall
(Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, UK and Portland, USA, 2008/9)
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