William an Englishman is Persephone Book No.1. It was written in a rage in 1918 this extraordinary novel...is a passionate assertion of the futility of war The Spectator 1999. Its author Cicely Hamilton had been an actress and a suffragette and was wellknown for her polemic Marriage as a Trade 1909. Upon the outbreak of the First World War she went to the Scottish Womens Hospital at Royaumant and was there until 1917 she then organised Concerts at the Front for the troops. William an Englis