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Author: Sue
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The Cool Web itself
There’s a cool web of language winds us in.. Retreat from too much joy or too much fear.. we grow sea-green at last and coldly die in brininess and volubility..
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The hot scent of the summer rose
Children are dumb to say how hot the day is,. How hot the scent is of the summer rose..
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The astonishing life of Elsie Bowerman
She was rescued from the Titanic; caught up in the Russian Revolution; demonstrated with the suffragettes, drove ambulances during WW1, became the first woman barrister ever to speak at the Old Bailey, and almost in passing, founded the WVS. Even though she has never to my knowledge appeared on I’m a Celebrity, Get me out…
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More unsung heroines of WW1
These are wonderful women, all of them – and we should be celebrating them as loudly as we can. They give our daughters and granddaughters role models of rather more use than the empty celebrities they are encouraged to adore.
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The Other Heroines of WW1
Edith Cavell was just one of a large number of professional women who, using their medical training and expertise to aid the soldiers caught up in the conflict, pushed forward the emancipation of women in medicine.
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