A Lame Dog's Diary - Softcover

Macnaughtan, S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438534671 ISBN 13: 9781438534671

Verlag: Book Jungle, 2010

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Sarah Macnaughtan was born in 1864. She was a writer and worked in the suffrage movement. When the war began she worked as a volunteer nurse in Belgium. The Lame dog is a British soldier who came back from the Boar War with two shattered legs. The soldier keeps a diary to help with the boredom during his recovery. His diary is full of the people and local sayings of this small old fashioned and isolated village. The soldier falls in love with one of his visitors.

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Sarah Broom Macnaughtan was a Scottish author. When the First World War broke out, she volunteered for the Red Cross Society and was transferred to Russia, then Armenia. She wrote extensively on the condition of Armenian genocide refugees. She died from an illness suffered while traveling. Born in Partick, Scotland, she was the fourth daughter and sixth child of Peter Macnaughtan and Julia Blackman. Her father educated her at home. After her parents died, she relocated to Kent, England, and later to London. She began her writing career there, publishing her debut novel, Selah Harrison, in 1898. Her best-known writings include The Fortune of Christina M'Nab (1901), A Lame Dog's Diary (1905), and The Expensive Miss Du Cane (1900). Meanwhile, she visited Canada, South America, South Africa, the Middle East, and India, among other destinations. Sarah participated in the women's suffrage movement, supported victims of the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913, provided social services to London's East End destitute, and worked for the Red Cross during the Second Boer War. She volunteered with the Red Cross Society after World War I broke out. In September 1914, she traveled to Antwerp, Belgium, with an ambulance team. Following the city's evacuation, she provided assistance in northern France by operating a soup kitchen in Adinkerke. She was awarded the Order of Leopold for her controversial work in Belgium.

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• Verlag: Book Jungle
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1438534671
• ISBN 13: 9781438534671
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 162
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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