ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the careers of the generation of creative women who lived through the Great War. It focuses primarily on Anglophone and Francophone allied women and their transnational connections. The book explores ad hoc networks forged by and for women artists in the absence of their male colleagues, while also revealing the repercussions of the dissolution of these structures after the November 1918 armistice. It explains the answers to the research questions depend on myriad factors, including class, access to training, social standing, marital status, geographic location, and artistic milieu, among others. The book explains the ways that the war interacted with the lives of women who forged these creative conduits. It examines professional trajectories directly interrupted or redirected because of the war.
