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Contacts and Contrasts
Contacts and Contrasts
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Helena Gleichen, Queen Victoria's great-niece and cousin to
George V, gives the lie to the belief that Victorian women were meek, submissive and led restricted lives.
A passionate horsewoman and successful artist, the autobiographical anecdotes in the earlier part of the book are lively and amusing.
The longer second section gives a detailed account of how she and Nina Hollings, her long-term companion and sister of the composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth, raised and manned one of the first mobile X-Ray units to be used by the British in World War I - Marie Curie was organizing the French radiography service - for which they both received numerous decorations.
Helena Gleichen paints a vivid picture of the war in Italy,
which tends to be little remembered compared to the Western
Front, and above all gives an extremely interesting account of how the X-ray Unit was set up and operated, and the considerable impact it had on the treatment and survival rate of the wounded.
George V, gives the lie to the belief that Victorian women were meek, submissive and led restricted lives.
A passionate horsewoman and successful artist, the autobiographical anecdotes in the earlier part of the book are lively and amusing.
The longer second section gives a detailed account of how she and Nina Hollings, her long-term companion and sister of the composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth, raised and manned one of the first mobile X-Ray units to be used by the British in World War I - Marie Curie was organizing the French radiography service - for which they both received numerous decorations.
Helena Gleichen paints a vivid picture of the war in Italy,
which tends to be little remembered compared to the Western
Front, and above all gives an extremely interesting account of how the X-ray Unit was set up and operated, and the considerable impact it had on the treatment and survival rate of the wounded.
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