Cultivating Victory: The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement

Part I. The First World War

PartI. The First World War jjj Ladies of leisure—and women of action. Time hangs heavily on their hands. They decide to join the women who are helping so much. . . . They go to work on land to counteract the U-boats’ work at sea. Weeds, like U-boats, must be exterminated. —Women’s Land Army recruiting film, 1918 ...