Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women On the Western Front (Hardcover)

by Diane Atkinson (Author)

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Preface Publishing (Aug 11 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1848091338
ISBN-13: 978-1848091337
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 599 g
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This is the remarkable story of two brave and charismatic women, the only women to nurse on the Front line in the First World War. Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisolm were decorated with seventeen medals for bravery and self-sacrifice.

About the Author

Diane Atkinson was born in the North-East and educated in Cornwall and London, where she completed a PhD on the politics of women's sweated labour. At the Museum of London she worked as a lecturer and curator specializing in women's history. She has an MA from the University of East Anglia in Life-writing. She is the author of Suffragettes in Pictures, Funny Girls: Cartooning for Equality and Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick, which was published in 2003.