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Item Details
Title:
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CONTACTS AND CONTRASTS
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By: |
Helena Gleichen, Caroline Stone |
Format: |
Paperback |

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£20.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1905021097 |
ISBN 13: |
9781905021093 |
Publisher: |
ZETICULA LTD |
Pub. date: |
18 January, 2013 |
Pages: |
394 |
Synopsis: |
Helena Gleichen, Queen Victoria's great-niece and cousin to George V, gives the lie to the belief that Victorian women were meek, submissive and led restricted lives. A passionate horsewoman and successful artist, the autobiographical anecdotes in the earlier part of the book are lively and amusing. The longer second section gives a detailed account of how she and Nina Hollings, her long-term companion and sister of the composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth, raised and manned one of the first mobile X-Ray units to be used by the British in World War I - Marie Curie was organizing the French radiography service - for which they both received numerous decorations. Helena Gleichen paints a vivid picture of the war in Italy, which tends to be little remembered compared to the Western Front, and above all gives an extremely interesting account of how the X-ray Unit was set up and operated, and the considerable impact it had on the treatment and survival rate of the wounded. Gleichen's fascinating writings are here given a new Introduction by Caroline Stone. |
Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Mansion Field |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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