Reading behind the lines : war artists, war poets, reading and letter writing, 1917-1919

Black, Jonathan (2015) Reading behind the lines : war artists, war poets, reading and letter writing, 1917-1919. In: Towheed, Shafquat and King, Edmund G. C., (eds.) Reading and the First World War : readers, texts, archives. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 171-189. (New Directions in Book History) ISBN 9781137302700

Abstract

My chapter, comprising some 7,000 words with 4 plates, focussed on letters written by certain British war artists while at the Front as serving soldiers to wives and family. I concentrated on: Eric Kennington, Charles Sargeant Jagger and CRW Nevinson. I also touched upon letters written by Kennington and Nevinson while working in France as official war artists in 1917-18 to fellow artists still in London such as William Rothenstein, who were waiting for an opportunity to become an official British war artist in France.

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