1. Ellen Key, “Mütterlichkeit,” in Adele Schreiber, ed., Mutterschaft: Ein Sammelwerk fur die Probleme des Weibes als Mutter (Munich: Albert Langen Verlag, 1912), 587–601 (quotation 592).
2. Vera Brittain, Testament of Tbuth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900–1925 [1933] (New York and London: Penguin Group, 1994), 59
3. see also Jean E. Kennard, Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby: A Working Partnership (Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1989), 1–23; Virginia Woolf, “Professions for Women” [1931], in Virginia Woolf, Women and Writing ed. Michèle Barrett (San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace, 1979), 57–63 (quotation 59).
4. Dora Russell, The Right to be Happy (New York: Harper Brothers, 1927), 201.
5. Yvonne Knibiehler, L’Histoire des mères du moyen-âge à nos jours (Paris: Éditions Montalba, 1980), 283