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This fierce anti-war novel by Irene Rathbone (1892-1980) is told from the perspective of a cultured former suffragist and several of her friends—young women who work at rest camps just behind the lines in France and as nurses of the severely wounded in hospitals in London. When Joan loses both her brother and lover to the war, in anger at the enemy she volunteers for work in a munitions plant, but by the end, she is a confirmed pacifist.
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Irene Rathbone (1892-1980) is the author of seven other novels.
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Although most modern readers won't experience the same rush of recognition that greeted the first appearance, in 1932, of this semi-autobiographical WW I account, they will appreciate its authenticity. Working from her diaries, British suffragette Rathbone (1892-1980) captures in painstaking detail the daily heroisms and drudgery of women's work in rest camps, hospitals and munitions factories. Initially, her four young protagonists find their duties glamorous, but as yet another fiance, friend or brother gets killed, as the women serve tea to one more exhausted soldier or minister to the umpteenth casualty, horror overcomes them. A character writes, in a letter, "One can't associate these boys with dying . . . . Do you really believe it was us who worked and played in London? Because I don't. I think it was some people that I read about in a book once." Rathbone maintains a restrained, calm voice; her portrait of the losses and courage of a generation powerfully examines the often neglected contributions of women during war.
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