After reading Helen Zenna Smith’s powerful answer to Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, I am sitting in stunned silence. This author, who is fairly obscure and unread, wrote with such passion about the conditions under which the Volunteer Aide Detachment (VAD) ambulance drivers worked, that it’s hard to believe she didn’t work in that capacity herself. · Not So Quiet was published under the pseudonym Helen Zenna Smith—the full name of the novel’s heroine, known as Smithy to her fellow combatants and Nell to everyone else—which gave the impression that it was a work of autobiography, rather than fiction, and contributed to its success in an era when firsthand accounts of the war still sold Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins. NOT SO QUIET Stepdaughters of War HELEN ZENNA SMITH AFTERWORD BY JANE MARCUS Not So Quiet was first published in Great Britain by4/5(32).
Not So Quiet was published under the pseudonym Helen Zenna Smith—the full name of the novel's heroine, known as Smithy to her fellow combatants and Nell to everyone else—which gave the impression that it was a work of autobiography, rather than fiction, and contributed to its success in an era when firsthand accounts of the war still sold. Not the book you're looking for? Preview — Not So Quiet by Helen Zenna Smith. Not So Quiet Quotes Showing of 1. "Her soul died that night under a radiant silver moon in the spring of on the side of a blood-spattered trench. Around her lay the mangled dead and the dying. Her body was untouched, her heart beat calmly, the. Helen Zenna Smith is the pseudonym of Evadne Price who served as an ambulance driver in France during the FWW. This totally compelling fictionalised account of a woman's experience of the War should be ranked alongside E. M. Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front', Siegfried Sassoon's 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' or Edmund Blunden's.
Stars Originally published in , Not So Quiet is one of those faux memoir style epistolary novels describing the experiences of World War 1 ambulance driver Helen Smith, aka "Smithy". Her story opens in as she serves in France with a group of other female ambulance drivers. First published in London in ,Not So Quiet (on the Western Front) describes a group of British women ambulance drivers on the French front lines during World War I, surviving shell fire, cold, and their punishing commandant, "Mrs. Bitch." The novel takes the guise of an autobiography by Smith, pseudonym for Evadne Price. NOT SO QUIET Stepdaughters of War HELEN ZENNA SMITH AFTERWORD BY JANE MARCUS Not So Quiet was first published in Great Britain by Albert E. Marriott in ©
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