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Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print

Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print

Jane Potter

Clarendon Press
2005
sidottu
Modernist texts and writings of protest have until now received most of the critical attention of literary scholars of the First World War. Popular literature with its penchant for predictable storylines, melodramatic prose, and patriotic rhetoric has been much-maligned or at the very least ignored. Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War redresses the balance. It turns the spotlight on the novels and memoirs of women writers - many of whom are now virtually forgotten - that appealed to a British reading public hungry for amusement, news, and above all, encouragement in the face of uncertainty and grief. The writers of 1914-18 had powerful models for interpreting their war, as a consideration of texts from the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 shows. They were also bolstered by wartime publishing practices that reinforced the sense that their books, whether fiction or non-fiction, were not simply 'light' entertainment but a powerful agents of propaganda. Generously illustrated, Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print is a scholarly yet accessible illumination of a hitherto untapped resource of women's writing and is an important new contribution to the study of the literature of the Great War.
Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print

Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print

Jane Potter

Oxford University Press
2008
nidottu
Modernist texts and writings of protest have until now received most of the critical attention of literary scholars of the First World War. Popular literature with its penchant for predictable storylines, melodramatic prose, and patriotic rhetoric has been much-maligned or at the very least ignored. Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War redresses the balance. It turns the spotlight on the novels and memoirs of women writers - many of whom are now virtually forgotten - that appealed to a British reading public hungry for amusement, news, and above all, encouragement in the face of uncertainty and grief. The writers of 1914-18 had powerful models for interpreting their war, as a consideration of texts from the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 shows. They were also bolstered by wartime publishing practices that reinforced the sense that their books, whether fiction or non-fiction, were not simply 'light' entertainment but a powerful agents of propaganda. Generously illustrated, Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print is a scholarly yet accessible illumination of a hitherto untapped resource of women's writing and is an important new contribution to the study of the literature of the Great War.
When He's Not an Ordinary Sinner

When He's Not an Ordinary Sinner

Jane Potter

Word Alive Press
2025
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Do you wonder how your marriage has left you feeling crushed and hopeless? Do you wonder how you're going to spend another day married to him? Do you wonder why he's not changing even though you've prayed for it faithfully? You've tried loving him more, but your marriage isn't improving. In fact, it's getting worse
Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

Jane Potter

Bodleian Library
2014
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Wilfred Owen is the poet of pity, the voice of the soldier maimed, blinded, traumatised and killed, not just in the Great War, but in all wars since, so resonant has his message become. Although he saw only five of his poems published in his lifetime, he left behind a portfolio of poetry and letters that created a powerful legacy. This generously illustrated book tells the story of Wilfred Owen’s life and work anew, from his birth in 1893 until his death one week before the Armistice on 4 November 1918. It chronicles Owen’s journey from a romantic youth, steeped in the poetry of Keats, to mature soldier awakened to the horrors of the Western Front. Drawing on rich archival material such as personal books, artefacts, family photographs and numerous manuscripts, the volume takes a fresh look at Owen’s apprenticeship and eventual mastery of poetry, giving a comprehensive view of the relationship between his lived experience and his writing. Those already familiar with or well-versed in Owen's work will find new material in this book, and those coming to Owen for the first time will enjoy a well researched, yet accessible, illustrated introduction to one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.
Working in a World of Hurt

Working in a World of Hurt

Carol Acton; Jane Potter

Manchester University Press
2015
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Working in a world of hurt fills a significant gap in the studies of the psychological trauma wrought by war. It focuses not on soldiers, but on the men and women who fought to save them in casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps. The writings by doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and other medical personnel reveal the spectrum of their responses that range from breakdown to resilience. Through a rich analysis of both published and unpublished personal from the First World War in the early twentieth century to Iraq in the early twenty-first, Acton and Potter put centre stage the letters, diaries, memoirs and weblogs that have chronicled physical and emotional suffering, many for the first time. Wide-ranging in scope, interdisciplinary in method, and written in a scholarly yet accessible style, Working in a world of hurt is essential reading for lecturers and students as well as the general reader.
British Literature of World War I, Volume 1

British Literature of World War I, Volume 1

Andrew Maunder; Angela K Smith; Jane Potter; Trudi Tate

Routledge
2017
nidottu
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available. This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories, novels and plays from 1914–19.
British Literature of World War I, Volume 3

British Literature of World War I, Volume 3

Andrew Maunder; Angela K Smith; Jane Potter; Trudi Tate

Routledge
2017
nidottu
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available. This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories, novels and plays from 1914–19.
British Literature of World War I, Volume 5

British Literature of World War I, Volume 5

Andrew Maunder; Angela K Smith; Jane Potter; Trudi Tate

Routledge
2017
nidottu
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available. This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories, novels and plays from 1914–19.
British Literature of World War I, Volume 2

British Literature of World War I, Volume 2

Andrew Maunder; Angela K Smith; Jane Potter; Trudi Tate

Routledge
2017
nidottu
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available. This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories, novels and plays from 1914–19.
British Literature of World War I, Volume 4

British Literature of World War I, Volume 4

Andrew Maunder; Angela K Smith; Jane Potter; Trudi Tate

Routledge
2017
nidottu
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available. This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories, novels and plays from 1914–19.
British Literature of World War I, Volume 1

British Literature of World War I, Volume 1

Andrew Maunder; Angela K Smith; Jane Potter; Trudi Tate

Routledge
2011
sidottu
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available. This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories, novels and plays from 1914–19.
British Literature of World War I, Volume 2

British Literature of World War I, Volume 2

Andrew Maunder; Angela K Smith; Jane Potter; Trudi Tate

Routledge
2011
sidottu
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available. This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories, novels and plays from 1914–19.
British Literature of World War I, Volume 3

British Literature of World War I, Volume 3

Andrew Maunder; Angela K Smith; Jane Potter; Trudi Tate

Routledge
2011
sidottu
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available. This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories, novels and plays from 1914–19.
British Literature of World War I, Volume 4

British Literature of World War I, Volume 4

Andrew Maunder; Angela K Smith; Jane Potter; Trudi Tate

Routledge
2011
sidottu
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available. This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories, novels and plays from 1914–19.
British Literature of World War I, Volume 5

British Literature of World War I, Volume 5

Andrew Maunder; Angela K Smith; Jane Potter; Trudi Tate

Routledge
2011
sidottu
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available. This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories, novels and plays from 1914–19.
Sharkbait

Sharkbait

Jane Ross Potter

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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"Jaws" meets global warming? An inconvenient tooth? Based on real science, "Sharkbait" throws two mismatched scientists together, risking their lives to learn how sharks can venture on shore for food. Climate change, toxins in the ocean, or something more sinister? Sharon is a Maine-based marine biologist who learns of the attacks when she visits Hawaii for only the second time in fifteen years. Johann is an eccentric shark expert in Waikiki who blames Sharon for a near-fatal shark injury that ruined his chances for a normal life. Sharon and Johann wrestle with their past while they risk their lives to find out how sharks are able to attack on land. Can the attacks be stopped before it's too late? The author is a PhD scientist living on the Maine coast.
It Began with the Marbles

It Began with the Marbles

Jane Ross Potter

Goose River Press
2022
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Kelville-by-the-Sea, an outwardly quiet seaside town on the northeast coast of Scotland, has hired a new senior police officer, Helen Griffen. Hardened by a career spent policing in the city of Edinburgh, Helen looks forward to a peaceful last posting before retirement. But within her first few weeks on the job, Helen discovers that she's inherited a police sergeant who lives in the police station under an assumed name; a seven-year-old missing person case, or maybe a death; an American ballet troupe about to descend on the town, the ballet star a secretive enigma; and the mention of DNA tests sending a local family into a panic. Clearly, there is more to Kilvellie than sea glass, ice cream, and fish and chips.Helen finds her moral compass shifting: not just hers, but that of her private investigator son Adam who she brings in to make discreet inquiries about the missing person, a teenage girl. With Helen's predecessor fled to sunny Spain, she has no one else to trust. Together they learn that behind the town's calm exterior hides the story of a World War One-era German soldier, the Scottish nurse he married, and how they established a successful glass business and set in motion a cascade of events and side-taking that still resonates.Adam's suspicion falls on an elderly man who often hobbles out to a cliffside bench to gaze at the North Sea, lost in memories; he is a well-known presence in the town. Helen learns that the man lives in a nearby luxury care home, but how he pays for it is another mystery. She has to tread lightly, though. To complicate matters for Helen, the elderly man's son is Helen's predecessor at the police station, and his grandson is her sergeant: both are implicated in the teenager's disappearance. The innocent-seeming sea glass that people travel from afar to collect has its own hidden story. That weathered red glass was once a poppy in a war memorial window, and that lettered piece was once the base of a unique glass vase. How the glass reached the beach in the first place, Helen learns, is the true tragedy. But seeking justice for decades-old misdeeds could simply prolong an ancient dispute.Prologue: It should be a simple decision, Alistair thought, turn right or turn left. He sat behind the wheel of a right-hand-drive car, and despite spending several weeks in Scotland, he was still feeling his way with the controls after his long experience with American cars. The driveway heading west, away from the seaside chapel, led to a two-lane road going north and south: right turn to the north coast and the ferry to Orkney, left turn toward the rolling fields of Fife and his temporary home in the village of Finlay.He knew the choice was in his hands, but he also knew the circumstances leading up to it were a century old and complex. His decision a few days ago to pick up some sea glass from a beach. The choice to go to that beach stemming from his career choice a decade ago, to become a private investigator. Someone in America calling him, saying, since you're in Scotland anyway, can you help me with an assignment? The person in America calling because of a young woman born more than two decades earlier, her survival uncertain, her background a mystery....
It Continued with the Cowries

It Continued with the Cowries

Jane Ross Potter

Goose River Press
2023
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Kelville-by-the-Sea, an outwardly quiet seaside town on the northeast coast of Scotland, is the setting for this sequel to It Began with the Marbles. The story begins with the sudden death of an elderly man who served during World War Two as a guard at the town's famous glass factory. Local police officer Helen Griffen treats the death as an accident, but questions are raised that lead her to wonder if the man was murdered. Her suspicions may be too late, as any physical evidence has been compromised.Aided by a visiting American private investigator, Alistair Wright, and his lawyer fianc e Margaret Milford, Helen starts to quietly investigate the man's background. She soon learns that a number of people might have wanted him injured or dead. Meanwhile, her son, also a private investigator, is furious that Helen is handling the case herself: she has a personal relationship with the dead man's son, and the dead man's grandson is her sergeant. Although Margaret is supportive of Alistair's efforts to help Helen get to the truth, she can't help resenting how much time he's spending, with no chance of compensation for his professional expertise. And when Margaret gets pulled into a meeting with the dead man's lawyers, she worries that her inexperience will send the investigation along the wrong path. On a personal level, she is impatient to resolve things with Alistair: will they return to Maine soon and marry there, or stay on in Scotland? The indecision is weighing on both of them.Gradually, Helen learns that the outwardly peaceful town harbors deep secrets from the war years, and that the dead man might have been implicated in the death or disappearance of evacuee teenagers who were sent to Kilvellie as war broke out, to escape the risk of bombing in the cities. Powerful forces in the town are trying to keep the truth from Helen. Yet, when she finally learns what she now believes to be the sad truth, an elderly resident of the care home where the dead man lived comes forward with an entirely new interpretation of the tragic events during Kilvellie's war years.
Seeking the Medicine Buddha

Seeking the Medicine Buddha

Jane Ross Potter

Independently Published
2020
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Scientist Harvey Maxwell's kindness and Buddhist compassion mask an inner demon: his deep guilt at failing to cure his young wife's terminal cancer. Harvey turns his sadness to good use, and sets out to develop new medicines from plants growing in hidden Himalayan valleys. His hard work pays off and he discovers a highly effective painkiller. Through his company, Harvey sells the medicine to grateful clients. One day Harvey receives devastating news: a pharmaceutical giant alleges that Harvey's painkiller infringes their patent. Harvey teams up with a private investigator, Alistair, and a patent lawyer, Paula, and together they seek a way around the dilemma. Harvey is guided by his Buddhist beliefs and expects that everything will turn out for the best. The secret of the pain medicine leads to the Himalayas, where Paula and Alistair find adventure while helping Harvey to save his company and continue working with the local scientists.