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When the Great War began, Rathbone was a young actress. She volunteered for war service, working at two YMCA camps in France and as a VAD in London. Her novel, We That Were Young (1932), draws upon those experiences as well as upon those of her close friend, Ruby Wyld, who worked in a munitions factory. The following excerpt, while not, strictly speaking, autobiographical, nevertheless provides a convincing account of the life of women munitions workers.
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Klein, Y.M. (1997). Irene Rathbone (1892–1980). In: Klein, Y.M. (eds) Beyond the Home Front. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25497-2_14
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