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.
- 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
- 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
- Cecil Beaton, a photograph of the Queen
- William Russell 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
Bibliographic information
Title: 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]Â : Hodder and Stoughton, 1939.
Description: 255 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims., music ; 26 cm.
Reference: OCLCÂ 1011946
