Shadow-Shapes: The Journal of a Wounded Woman provides a rare first-hand account of World War I from a female perspective, detailing the author's own injuries from a landmine explosion and her reflections from a series of French military hospitals.
In this autobiographical memoir, Sergeant examines the gendered societal positions of the era, noting how she views her own participation in the war as less significant than a man's, despite her personal suffering. Her prose is at once painful and keenly observant, capturing her "pin-point of sharp experience" within the "vast catastrophe" of the conflict, a contrast that highlights the intimate and personal trauma of war against its massive, impersonal scale.Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.
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Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant (1881–1965) was an American journalist and author whose compassionate, socially aware writings often focused on marginalized communities. During World War I, while serving as a war correspondent on the Western Front, she was severely wounded by a landmine explosion in October 1918 and subsequently spent months recuperating. Her memoir Shadow‑Shapes: Journal of a Wounded Woman (1920) provides a rare and intimate perspective on war and healing from a woman’s viewpoint, blending vivid personal narrative with broader reflections on suffering and resilience. Following the war, Sergeant continued to champion social causes. She worked in New Mexico among Pueblo communities, reporting for The New Republic and The Nation, and later producing acclaimed biographies of Willa Cather and Robert Frost.
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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Shadow-Shapes: The Journal of a Wounded Woman provides a rare first-hand account of World War I from a female perspective, detailing the author's own injuries from a landmine explosion and her reflections from a series of French military hospitals.In this autobiographical memoir, Sergeant examines the gendered societal positions of the era, noting how she views her own participation in the war as less significant than a man's, despite her personal suffering. Her prose is at once painful and keenly observant, capturing her "pin-point of sharp experience" within the "vast catastrophe" of the conflict, a contrast that highlights the intimate and personal trauma of war against its massive, impersonal scale.Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798888977231
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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Shadow-Shapes: The Journal of a Wounded Woman provides a rare first-hand account of World War I from a female perspective, detailing the author's own injuries from a landmine explosion and her reflections from a series of French military hospitals.In this autobiographical memoir, Sergeant examines the gendered societal positions of the era, noting how she views her own participation in the war as less significant than a man's, despite her personal suffering. Her prose is at once painful and keenly observant, capturing her 'pin-point of sharp experience' within the 'vast catastrophe' of the conflict, a contrast that highlights the intimate and personal trauma of war against its massive, impersonal scale.Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798888977231
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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. Shadow-Shapes: The Journal of a Wounded Woman provides a rare first-hand account of World War I from a female perspective, detailing the author's own injuries from a landmine explosion and her reflections from a series of French military hospitals.In this autobiographical memoir, Sergeant examines the gendered societal positions of the era, noting how she views her own participation in the war as less significant than a man's, despite her personal suffering. Her prose is at once painful and keenly observant, capturing her "pin-point of sharp experience" within the "vast catastrophe" of the conflict, a contrast that highlights the intimate and personal trauma of war against its massive, impersonal scale.Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798888977231
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