<Ul> <Li> Vera Brittain </Li> <Li> May Wedderburn Cannan </Li> <Li> Margaret Postaget Cole </Li> <Li> Rose MaCaulay </Li> <Li> Alice Meynell </Li> <Li> Jessie Pope </Li> <Li> Margaret Sackville </Li> </Ul> <Li> May Wedderburn Cannan </Li> <Li> Margaret Postaget Cole </Li> <P> Poetry provided female writers an opportunity to express their views through metaphor and allusion . Consequently, wartime writing allowed women to challenge prevailing societal beliefs by arguing in favour of extended social and political rights such as enfranchisement . Women writers reimagined Britain's post-war social landscape by using their writing as a way to evoke sharp criticism of masculine British hegemony . </P>

Women's poetry of the first world war