William an Englishman

Cicely Hamilton

Written in 1919, in First World War in France; the book is feminist but anti-suffragette. It's about William the Socialist and Griselda the Suffragette who marry and go to France. They don't speak French, they are like babies in a tiny hamlet near the Somme - when they get a note saying the Germans are coming they don't understand it. Appalling and brutal things happen. An extraordinary book for its time.
Doreen 2/12/01

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