Abstract
Europe as a whole seems to have shared a general euphoria at the declaration of war; yet by 1920 an annual Remembrance Ceremony marked national mourning in Britain. The gradual disenchantment with the War began as early as 1915, but the fighting was continued for another three years. At the beginning, the First World War had lifted the young high on its crest; both young men and young women were impressionable and caught up in the general enthusiasm. As Storm Jameson put it, looking back in 1933:
When the war broke out you and I were young … For us and for those who like us were without ballast of experience, the war came as a sudden wave, lifting us high before it threw us under. (Jameson, 1933: 189)
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© 1990 Claire M. Tylee
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Cannan, M., Mansfield, K., La Motte, E., Borden, M. (1990). ‘The Magic of Adventure’. In: The Great War and Women’s Consciousness. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20454-0_4
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