SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. ~ The Women's Land Army.
First edition. 64 halftone photographic illustrations with captions. 112 pp. 8vo., original green cloth with red lettering and the Women’s Land Army device in gilt on the upper cover, in the original torn dust jacket. Spine and bottom edge of the cloth faded.
The book informs the reader about the W.L.A. in different areas, its organisation, various guides to different farm work, the problems of rats and ends with ‘Courageous Deeds - and some stories’ and ‘The Future of the Land-Girl’. There are some suggested post-war careers for women too pointing to an era where women’s liberation began to feel like something that might be achievable.
The photograph captions are rather jaunty - “Not so glamorous’; ‘Sun-burnt mirth’; ‘Her physical strength has been a surprise...’; ‘The lumber-jill’. The photographs are often glamorous with girls in corduroy breeches and neat jackets - one such with two women attaching a pulley to a tree trunk declares, “The girl on the left comes from Jamaica. She is a professional singer - this is what she is doing now...”.