Item Detail
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30355
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English
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Try To Be As Brave : Cross-Continental Comparisons of Great War Poetry
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Summer 2018
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86
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3
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Illinois Press
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234-253
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The Relief Society Magazine began in the same year as the Great War, 1914, was published in Salt Lake City, and provided a forum for female members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) to comment on current events, publish short stories and poetry, and learn about what was going on in their organization and receive instruction from it. Altogether, the Relief Society Magazine authors discussed in this article can be characterized as religious, middle-aged women who lived throughout the Mormon cultural region and found time to write amidst a host of family and other responsibilities. I was curious to learn what similarities might exist between women and occasionally men writing about the war in the Relief Society Magazine and the well-known poems from British authors, both men and women. Connections do exist, to be sure: Relief Society Magazine authors wrote about some of the same themes as their British counterparts and sometimes alluded to the work of those famous poets. On the other hand, the greatly different experiences of these two sets of authors is evident in their writing, especially given the connection between gender and military service and the resulting tension between men and women.
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