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 |
| ABBOTT, Dorothea | (1984) | Librarian In The Land Army |
Stratford upon Avon: Greenhill Books |
Warwickshire experience | 0950939609 |
|
Alex (WLA No.906) & Bee (WLA No.1223) |
(1993) | Graips and Gumboots: Memories Of The Women's Land Army |
Dunbartonshire: SMI & RSH |
Perthshire & Stirlingshire: Scottish experience | B9478219 |
| BAGNOLD, Audrey | (2009) | When Grandma Wore Breeches |
Chalford: Amberley Publishing |
Surrey, Lancashire and Cheshire experiences | 9781848682351 |
| BARRAUD, Enid Mary | (1946) | Set My Hand Upon the Plough |
Worcester: Littlebury |
Cambridgeshire experience -based on diary | |
| BATES, Martha (Edited & compiled: Bonney, Anne) | (2001) | Snagging Turnips, And Scaling Muck: The Women's Land Army In Westmoreland |
Kendal: Croom |
Westmorland experience | 0953183696 |
| BENTINCK, Michael (Ed) | (1998) | War Time Women |
Cambridge: M. Bentinck |
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: Arthur H. Stockwell |
Post-war experience in Kent (1947-49) | 0722333412 |
| COOPER, Nancy | (2007) | Down to Earth: Memories of a young woman joining the Women's Land Army in 1943 | Studley: Brewin Books | Warwickshire experience | 978185858527 |
| COWLEY, Violet | (1985) | Over My Shoulder |
Ilfracombe: Arthur H.Stockwell |
West Sussex & North Buckinghamshire experience | 0722319630 |
| DEAN, Marjorie M | (1995) | The Women's Land Army And Me |
Edinburgh: Pentland Press |
Devon experience | 1858213118 |
| DIETT, Eve | (2006) | Here Come The Land Girls |
Peterborough: Blackie & Co |
Worcestershire experience | 1904986234 |
| DUGGAN-REES, Josephine | (2000) | Corduroy Days: a Portrait Of Life In The Women's Land Army |
Bognor Regis: Woodfield Publishing |
Sussex | 9781873203489 |
| EDWARDS, Elaine M (Editor) | 2010 | Scotlands Land Girls: Breeches, Bombers and Backaches | Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland | Scottish experience | 9781905267323 |
| ENTWISTLE, Mary | (1990) | Land Army Girl |
Leamington Spa: Drewfern |
Warwickshire | 0951609033 |
| FOX, Pat | (2010) | Bless Em All: Life in the Womens 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: Pentland Press |
Warwickshire | 1858217008 |
| GEERE, Marjorie | (1987) (1998) | Reminiscences of a Land Girl in WithamLandgirls: Links with Essex |
Witham, Essex: Albert Poulter |
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: Tuckwell Press |
Experiences of 'lumber jills' in the Timber Corps in Scotland | 1862320306 |
| GRAYSON, Peggy | (1994) | Buttercup Jill |
Ipswich: Farming Press |
Somerset experience | 0852362706 |
| GRIMWOOD, Irene | (2000) | Land Girls At The Old Rectory |
Ipswich: Old Pond Publishing |
Suffolk experience | 1903366003 |
| HAINES, Mary | (1995) | Odd Chapter: Diary Of A Land Girl | M. Haines | Suffolk experience | |
| HALL, Anne | (1993) | Land Girl: Her Story of Six Years In The Women's Land Army, 1940-46 |
Bradford upon Avon: Ex Libris Press |
Herefordshire, Hampshire & Wiltshire experiences | 0948578343 |
| HARDIE, Melissa (Ed) | (2006) | Digging For Memories The Women's Land Army in Cornwall |
Penzance: Hypatia Trust |
Cornwall experience | 1872229646 |
| IDDON, Jean H | (1947) | Fragrant Earth: An autobiography of a land girl |
London: Epworth Press |
Yorkshire experience | |
| JEFFERIES, Marion | (2015) | Yorkshire Women at War: Story of the Women's Land Arm | Pen & Sword | Yorkshire hostel experiences (through the eyes of Winifred Jacob-Smith, a WLA official) | 9787473849099 |
| JOHNS, Elise | (1998) | Dappled Sunlight: A Land Girl's Story |
Ilfracombe: Arthur H Stockwell |
Devon experience | 0722332033 |
| JOSEPH, Shirley | (1946) | If Their Mothers Only Knew: An Unofficial Account Of Life In The Women's Land Army |
London: Faber & Faber |
Oxfordshire experience | |
| JOYCE, Knighton | (1994) | Land Army Days: Cinderellas of the Soil |
Bolton: Aurora Publishing |
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: McGill-Queen's University Press [Paperback] |
Experience of Canadian woman on British farms as a land girl | 0773516638 0773531564 |
| KNAPPETT, Rachel |
(1946)
(1973) |
Pullet On The Midden |
London: Michael Joseph Bath: Chivers [Large Print] |
South Lancashire experience | British Museum Catalogue 0859972186 |
| KURTA, Sonia | (2007) | Charismatic Cows And Beefcake Bulls |
Ipswich: Old Pond Publishing |
Cornwall experience | 9781905523764 |
| MANT, Joan |
(1994)
(1995)(2009) (2012) |
All Muck, No Medals: Landgirls by landgirls
All Muck, Now Medals Land Girls: Women's Voices from the Wartime Farm |
Lewes: Book Club Oxford: Isis Publishing Chalford: Amberley Publishing Stroud: Amberley Publishing |
Anthology of experience throughout UK |
0863329624 9780863329623 9781848682597 9781445610481 |
| MIST, Ellen | (1992) | Aw-Arrh!: Experiences In The Women's Land Army |
Penzance: United Writers Publications |
Cornwall experience | 1852000430 |
| MITCHELL, [Maud] Micky' | (2007) | A Country War: Memoirs Of A Land Girl |
Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove |
East Devon experience | 9781841146508 |
| MORGAN, Gwenda | (2002) | The Diary Of A Land Girl, 1939 -1945 |
Risbury, Herts: Whittington Press |
South Downs experience in Sussex | 1854280651 |
| PETERS, Pat | (2009) | Land Girls Gang Up |
Ipswich: Old Pond Publishing |
Cornwall experience | 9781905523955 |
| RATTRAY, Veronica | (2009) | My Land Girl Years, 1939 - 1948 |
London: Athena Press |
Pennines experience in Lancashire | 9781847485267 |
| SNELLING, Joan | (2004) | A Land Girl's War |
Ipswich: Old Pond Publishing |
Norfolk experience | 1903366674 |
| STRANGE, Doreen | (1999) | A Land Girl's Diary: Burnham 1948 |
Maidenhead: Burnham Historians |
South Buckinghamshire | 0951985957 |
| TILLET, Iris | (1988) (2009) | The Cinderella Army: The Women's Land Army In Norfolk |
Dumfries: Iris Tillett London: Michael Joseph |
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: Meresborough Books |
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 : Bennett Brothers London: Imperial War Museum |
Experience of WTC training camps, sawmills and the forests of England and Wales |
British Museum Catalogue 1870423348 |
| 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: I.E. Williams |
Warwickshire experience | 0951006703 |
| WHITTON, Barbara | (1944) | Green Hands |
London: Faber & Faber |
Scottish experience | |
| WILDING, Frances | (1972) | Land Girl At Large: A Wartime Chronicle |
London: Paul Eleck |
Norfolk experience | 0236176935 |
| WILLIAMS, Mavis | (1994) | Lumber Jill: Her Story Of Four Years In The Women's Timber Corps, 1942 - 45 |
Bradford upon Avon: Ex Libris Press |
Herefordshire, then Cornwall experience | 0948578602 |
Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author
Page last updated: 4th June 2018