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
AuthorsA. E. W. Mason, The Conjurer, a storyHugh Walpole, The Church in the Snow, a storyJohn Masefield, Red Cross, a poemIan Hay, The Man who had Something Against HimCharles Morgan, Creative Imagination, an essayD. L. Murray, Only a Sojer!, a storyT. S. Eliot, The Marching Song of the Pollicle Dogs, a poemT. S. Eliot, Billy M'Caw: The Remarkable Parrot, a poemH. M. Tomlinson, Ports of Call, a storyA. A. Milne, The General Takes Off His Helmet, a playCecil Roberts, Down Ferry LaneE. M. Delafield, The Provincial Lady in War-time, a storyCedric Hardwicke, One Man in His Time Plays Many PartsDaphne du Maurier, The Escort, a storyAnn Bridge, Looking Back on May the Sixth, 1935Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver makes a List, a storyEric Ambler, The Army of Shadows, a storyHoward Marshall, The Fisherman's EnglandHumfrey Jordan, The Boatswain Yawned, a storyAlfred Noyes, A Child's Gallop, a poemAlfred Noyes, The Stranger, a poemO. Douglas, Such an Odd War!, a storyHoward Spring, Christmas Honeymoon, a storyDorothy Whipple, No Robbery, a storyLord Mottistone, Tell Them, WarriorL. A. G. Strong, A Gift from Christy Keogh, a storyWalter de la Mare, And So To Bed, a poemWalter de la Mare, Joy, a poemDenis Mackail, It's the Thought that Counts, a storyGracie Fields, On Getting BetterC. H. Middleton, Keep That Garden GoingGeorgette Heyer, Pursuit, a storyEdith Evans, The Patriotism of Shakespeare, an essayH. C. Bailey, The Thistle Down, a storyC. Day-Lewis, Orpheus and Eurydice, a translation from Virgil's GeorgicsRuby Ferguson, Mrs. Memmary's Visitors, a storyJ. B. Morton, A Love SongFrank Smythe, The CragMary Thomas, Our Knitting ForcesCollie Knox, This Flag Still Flies Over All Mankind, homage to the Red CrossArtistsCecil Beaton, a photograph of the QueenWilliam Russell Flint, The Words of His Majesty the King, a pictureEdmund Dulac, a pictureFrank Brangwyn, a pictureJ. Morton Sale, The Red Cross of Comfort, a pictureEdmund Blampied, The Symbol, a pictureDame Laura Knight, Hop Pickers, a pictureBip Pares, a pictureArthur Wragg, a pictureNorman Wilkinson, a pictureRex Whistler, In the Wilderness, a pictureMabel Lucie Attwell, a pictureIvor Novello, We'll Remember, a manuscript of a war songTitle: 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.
Author: Elizabeth, Queen consort of George VI, King of Great Britain; T S Eliot; John Masefield; British Red Cross Society.; Knights of Malta.
Publisher: [London] : Hodder and Stoughton, 1939.
Description: 255 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims., music ; 26 cm.
Reference: OCLC 1011946
