The Queen's Book of the Red Cross
1939 World War II fundraising book
The Queen's Book of the Red Cross was published in November 1939 in a fundraising effort to aid the Red Cross during World War II. The book was sponsored by Queen Elizabeth , and its contents were contributed by fifty British authors and artists.
List of authors and artists
Authors
A. E. W. Mason , "The Conjurer", a story
Hugh Walpole , "The Church in the Snow", a story
John Masefield , "Red Cross", a poem
Ian Hay , "The Man Who Had Something Against Him"
Charles Morgan , "Creative Imagination", an essay
D. L. Murray , "Only a Sojer!", a story
T. S. Eliot , "The Marching Song of the Pollicle Dogs", a poem
T. S. Eliot, "Billy M'Caw: The Remarkable Parrot", a poem
H. M. Tomlinson , "Ports of Call", a story
A. A. Milne , "The General Takes Off His Helmet", a play
Cecil Roberts , "Down Ferry Lane"
E. M. Delafield , "The Provincial Lady in War-time", a story
Cedric Hardwicke , "One Man in His Time Plays Many Parts"
Daphne du Maurier , "The Escort", a story
Ann Bridge , "Looking Back on May the Sixth, 1935"
Jan Struther , "Mrs. Miniver Makes a List", a story
Eric Ambler , "The Army of Shadows", a story
Howard Marshall, "The Fisherman's England"
Humfrey Jordan, "The Boatswain Yawned", a story
Alfred Noyes , "A Child's Gallop", a poem
Alfred Noyes, "The Stranger", a poem
O. Douglas , "Such an Odd War!", a story
Howard Spring , "Christmas Honeymoon", a story
Dorothy Whipple , "No Robbery", a story
Lord Mottistone , "Tell Them, Warrior"
L. A. G. Strong , "A Gift from Christy Keogh", a story
Walter de la Mare , "And So To Bed", a poem
Walter de la Mare, "Joy", a poem
Denis Mackail , "It's the Thought That Counts", a story
Gracie Fields , "On Getting Better"
C. H. Middleton , "Keep That Garden Going"
Georgette Heyer , "Pursuit", a story
Edith Evans , "The Patriotism of Shakespeare", an essay
H. C. Bailey , "The Thistle Down", a story
C. Day-Lewis , "Orpheus and Eurydice", a translation from Virgil's "Georgics "
Ruby Ferguson , "Mrs. Memmary's Visitors", a story
J. B. Morton , "A Love Song"
Frank Smythe , "The Crag"
Mary Thomas, "Our Knitting Forces"
Collie Knox , "This Flag Still Flies over All Mankind", homage to the Red Cross
Artists
Cecil Beaton , a photograph of the Queen
William Russell Flint , The Words of His Majesty the King , a picture
Edmund Dulac , a picture
Frank Brangwyn , a picture
J. Morton Sale , The Red Cross of Comfort , a picture
Edmund Blampied , The Symbol , a picture
Dame Laura Knight , Hop Pickers , a picture
Bip Pares , a picture
Arthur Wragg , a picture
Norman Wilkinson , a picture
Rex Whistler , In the Wilderness , a picture
Mabel Lucie Attwell , a picture
Ivor Novello , We'll Remember , a manuscript of a war song
Elizabeth, Queen consort of George VI, King of Great Britain; T S Eliot; John Masefield; British Red Cross Society; Knights of Malta (1939). The Queen's book of the Red Cross : with a message from Her Majesty the Queen and contributions by fifty British authors and artists : in aid of the Lord Mayor of London's fund for the Red Cross and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem . London: Hodder and Stoughton. {{cite book }}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link ) OCLC 1011946
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