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Caroline Stone

 
9781905021093: Contacts and Contrasts
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ISBN 10: 1905021097 ISBN 13: 9781905021093
Editorial: Zeticula, 2013

Sinopsis

Helena Gleichen, Queen Victoria’s great-niece and cousin toGeorge V, gives the lie to the belief that Victorian women weremeek, submissive and led restricted lives.A passionate horsewoman and successful artist, theautobiographical anecdotes in the earlier part of the book arelively and amusing.The longer second section gives a detailed account of howshe and Nina Hollings, her long-term companion and sister ofthe composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth, raised and mannedone of the first mobile X-Ray units to be used by the Britishin World War I - Marie Curie was organizing the Frenchradiography service - for which they both received numerousdecorations.Helena Gleichen paints a vivid picture of the war in Italy,which tends to be little remembered compared to the WesternFront, and above all gives an extremely interesting accountof how the X-ray Unit was set up and operated, and theconsiderable impact it had on the treatment and survival rateof the wounded.

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Helena Gleichen (1873-1947).

Caroline Stone was educated at Cambridge and the University of Kyoto, Japan. She has lived and worked largely in Rome and Seville, with periods in Tunisia and Saudi Arabia and Cambridge. Interests include textiles - with a book and several catalogues on Chinese export embroideries published in Spanish - and travel accounts, particularly those written by people who don't normally write books - the poor, women, slaves... Work in progress includes a cookery book and family history written for Syrian Christian friends in Kerala and an edition of letters written by a family connection: the composer, and suffragette Ethel Smyth.

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Editorial
Zeticula
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1905021097
ISBN 13 
9781905021093
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
394
Contacto del fabricante
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