
Contacts and Contrasts
Helena Gleichen(Author)
Mansion Field (Publisher)
Published on 18. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
394 pages
978-1-905021-09-3 (ISBN)
Description
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. Gleichen's fascinating writings are here given a new Introduction by Caroline Stone.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Glasgow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Zeticula Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
554 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-905021-09-3 (9781905021093)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Helena Gleichen (1873-1947).