The Queen's Book of the Red Cross

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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.

[edit] 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 Russel 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