Land Girl Memoirs: A booklist
Bedfordshire Women's Land Army Home
Below is a list of Land Girl memoirs recalling personal
experiences of land girls from across the country.
If you would like to enjoy these reminiscences then you can request them from
your local library using the inter-library loan system.
For general histories of the Women's Land Army
click here.
| Author | Year | Title | Publisher | Notes | ISBN/Ref |
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ABBOTT, Dorothea |
(1984) |
Librarian In The Land Army |
Stratford upon Avon: |
Warwickshire experience |
0950939609 |
|
Alex |
(1993) |
Graips and Gumboots: Memories Of The Women's Land Army |
Dunbartonshire: |
Perthshire & Stirlingshire: Scottish experience |
B9478219 |
|
BAGNOLD, Audrey |
(2009) |
When Grandma Wore Breeches |
Chalford: |
Surrey, Lancashire and Cheshire experiences |
9781848682351 |
|
BARRAUD, Enid Mary |
(1946) |
Set My Hand Upon the Plough |
Worcester: |
Cambridgeshire experience -based on diary |
|
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BATES, Martha (Edited & compiled: Bonney, Anne) |
(2001) |
Snagging Turnips, And Scaling Muck: The Women's Land Army In Westmoreland |
Kendal: |
Westmorland experience |
0953183696 |
|
BENTINCK, Michael (Ed) |
(1998) |
War Time Women |
Cambridge: |
Various counties |
0952615754 |
|
COLE, Pauline |
(2001) |
Transition To Arcady: A Story Of Two Years Spent In The Women's Land Army - '47 to '49 |
Ilfracombe: |
Post-war experience in Kent (1947-49) |
0722333412 |
|
COWLEY, Violet |
(1985) |
Over My Shoulder |
Ilfracombe: |
West Sussex & North Buckinghamshire experience |
0722319630 |
|
DEAN, Marjorie M |
(1995) |
The Women's Land Army And Me |
Edinburgh: |
Devon experience |
1858213118 |
|
DIETT, Eve |
(2006) |
Here Come The Land Girls |
Peterborough: |
Worcestershire experience |
1904986234 |
|
DUGGAN-REES, Josephine |
(2000) |
Corduroy Days: a Portrait Of Life In The Women's Land Army |
Bognor Regis: |
Sussex |
9781873203489 |
| EDWARDS, Elaine M (Editor) | 2010 | Scotland’s Land Girls: Breeches, Bombers and Backaches | Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland | Scottish experience | 9781905267323 |
|
ENTWISTLE, Mary |
(1990) |
Land Army Girl |
Leamington Spa: |
Warwickshire |
0951609033 |
| FOX, Pat | (2010) |
Bless ‘Em All: Life in the Women’s Land Army at Lubenham, Leicestershire |
Wymeswold, Loughborough: Heart of Albion (on behalf of Market Harborough Historical Society) |
Leicestershire |
9780955768613 |
|
FOY,Ellis |
(1999) |
Peaceful Wartime |
Edinburgh: |
Warwickshire |
1858217008 |
|
GEERE, Marjorie |
(1987)
(1998) |
Reminiscences of a Land Girl in Witham Landgirls: Links with Essex |
Witham, Essex: |
Essex experience [Revised Version] |
9780951210604
0951210602 |
|
GRAY, Affleck (Editor: Robertson, U) |
(1998) |
Timber!: Memories Of Life In The Scottish Women's Timber Corps 1942 - 46 |
East Linto: |
Experiences of 'lumber jills' in the Timber Corps in Scotland |
1862320306 |
|
GRAYSON, Peggy |
(1994) |
Buttercup Jill |
Ipswich: |
Somerset experience |
0852362706 |
|
GRIMWOOD, Irene |
(2000) |
Land Girls At The Old Rectory |
Ipswich: |
Suffolk experience |
1903366003 |
|
HAINES, Mary |
(1995) |
Odd Chapter: Diary Of A Land Girl |
M. Haines |
Suffolk experience |
|
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HALL, Anne |
(1993) |
Land Girl: Her Story of Six Years In The Women's Land Army, 1940-46 |
Bradford upon Avon: |
Herefordshire, Hampshire & Wiltshire experiences |
0948578343 |
|
HARDIE, Melissa (Ed) |
(2006) |
Digging For Memories – The Women's Land Army in Cornwall |
Penzance: |
Cornwall experience |
1872229646 |
|
IDDON, Jean H |
(1947) |
Fragrant Earth: An autobiography of a land girl |
London: |
Yorkshire experience |
|
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JOHNS, Elise |
(1998) |
Dappled Sunlight: A Land Girl's Story |
Ilfracombe: |
Devon experience |
0722332033 |
|
JOSEPH, Shirley |
(1946) |
If Their Mothers Only Knew: An Unofficial Account Of Life In The Women's Land Army |
London: |
Oxfordshire experience |
|
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JOYCE, Knighton |
(1994) |
Land Army Days: Cinderellas of the Soil |
Bolton: |
Anthology of experiences across England & Wales |
1859260322 |
|
KELSEY, Marion |
(1997)
(2006) |
Victory Harvest: Diary Of A Canadian In The Women's Land Army 1940 – 1944 |
Montreal, Canada:
|
Experience of Canadian woman on British farms as a land girl |
0773516638
0773531564 |
|
KNAPPETT, Rachel |
(1946)
(1973) |
Pullet On The Midden |
London:
|
South Lancashire experience |
British Museum Catalogue
0859972186 |
|
KURTA, Sonia |
(2007) |
Charismatic Cows And Beefcake Bulls |
Ipswich: |
Cornwall experience |
9781905523764 |
|
MANT, Joan |
(1994)
(1995) (2009) |
All Muck, No Medals: Landgirls by landgirls
|
Lewes: Oxford: Chalford: |
Anthology of experience throughout UK |
0863329624
|
|
MIST, Ellen |
(1992) |
Aw-Arrh!: Experiences In The Women's Land Army |
Penzance: |
Cornwall experience |
1852000430 |
|
MITCHELL, [Maud] ‘Micky' |
(2007) |
A Country War: Memoirs Of A Land Girl |
Wellington, Somerset: |
East Devon experience |
9781841146508 |
|
MORGAN, Gwenda |
(2002) |
The Diary Of A Land Girl, 1939 -1945 |
Risbury, Herts: |
South Downs experience in Sussex |
1854280651 |
|
PETERS, Pat |
(2009) |
Land Girls Gang Up |
Ipswich: |
Cornwall experience |
9781905523955 |
|
RATTRAY, Veronica |
(2009) |
My Land Girl Years, 1939 - 1948 |
London: |
Pennines experience in Lancashire |
9781847485267 |
|
SNELLING, Joan |
(2004) |
A Land Girl's War |
Ipswich: |
Norfolk experience |
1903366674 |
|
STRANGE, Doreen |
(1999) |
A Land Girl's Diary: Burnham 1948 |
Maidenhead: |
South Buckinghamshire |
0951985957 |
|
TILLET, Iris |
(1988)
(2009) |
The Cinderella Army: The Women's Land Army In Norfolk |
Dumfries: London: |
Norfolk experience, as county secretary (WLA middle management) |
095135230X |
|
TURNER, Norah |
(1992) |
In Baggy Brown Breeches And A Cowboy Hat: An Eastender's Wartime Life As A Land Girl in Kent |
Rainham, Kent: |
Kent experience |
0948193654 |
|
(Various members of the Women's Timber Corps) |
(c1945)
(1997 reprint) |
Meet The Members: A Record Of The Timber Corps Of The Women's Land Army |
Bristol : London: |
Experience of WTC training camps, sawmills and the forests of England and Wales |
British Museum Catalogue |
| WARD, John A | (2000) | Beetroot for Breakfast: tales from the Land Girls of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire |
Nottingham: John A Ward 47 Duke Street Arnold NG5 6GP |
Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire experiences | 9781907516054 |
|
WELLS, Irene |
(1984) |
My Life In The Land Army: Work And Play With The WLA |
Alcester, Warwickshire: |
Warwickshire experience |
0951006703 |
|
WHITTON, Barbara |
(1943) |
Green Hands |
London: |
Scottish experience |
|
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WILDING, Frances |
(1972) |
Land Girl At Large: A Wartime Chronicle |
London: |
Norfolk experience |
0236176935 |
|
WILLIAMS, Mavis |
(1994) |
Lumber Jill: Her Story Of Four Years In The Women's Timber Corps, 1942 - 45 |
Bradford upon Avon: |
Herefordshire, then Cornwall experience |
0948578602 |
