Louise Morrish looks at two courageous women who defied the authorities and went on the warpath during the First World War: one, literally, as a soldier, and one as a doctor. Louisa Garrett Anderson and Dorothy Lawrence inspired her new book, Women of War. In 1914, a surgeon and a soldier went to war — […]
Breaking Out of the Doll’s House
Catherine Hokin discovers the extraordinary women soldiers of the American Civil War. In 2010I found myself stranded in Chicago for a week following the volcanic eruption in Iceland. It was an odd experience, coming as it did at the end of a holiday: we were mentally adjusting to returning to everyday life (and physically adjusting – […]