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A Woman of Two Wars: The Life of Mary Borden

Author(s): Conway, Jane
Binding: Softcover
Volume Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket: No
Dust Jacket Condition: N/A
Dust Jacket Protection: N/A
Signature: None
Language: English
Publisher Name: Munday Books
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Place: London, UK
Book ID: 032748
Catalogue(s): Autobiography and Biography ◇ War, Military History and Weapons

342pp.  Laminated light card covers.  8vo.  A little gentle edge wear to card covers, some shadowing on text block edges.  Gift inscription inked onto the title page else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  

Mary Borden, a smart and beautiful American heiress, left America to travel the world.  By 1914 she was a celebrated literary hostess. mixing with the avant-garde and London's bohemian characters and counting among her friends Bernard Shaw, E M Forster, Ford Madox For and Ezra Pound.  A new mother when the first world war broke out, she signed up to serve with the French Red Cross and six months later was managing a mobile hospital on the front line.

Keywords:
Mary Borden First World War Bloomsbury Group

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