We That Were Young (Women & Peace)

Brand: The Feminist Press at CUNY

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UPC:
9781558610026
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1/1/1993
Author:
Irene Rathbone
Language:
english
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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 friendsyoung 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.