War-Torn Exchanges - The Lives and Letters of Nursing Sisters Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes

Andrea McKenzie is an associate professor in the Writing Department and the Graduate Program in History at York University. Her publications on war narratives have been printed in Other Fronts, Other Wars? First World War Studies on the Eve of the Centennial; The Lion and the Unicorn; and the Canadian Journal of Communications. She also co-edited and introduced, with Benjamin Lefebvre, the restored text of L.M. Montgomery¿s war novel, Rilla of Ingleside, and has published chapters about Montgomery¿s works in The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Vol. 2, A Critical Heritage; Textual Transformations in Children¿s Literature: Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations; and Making Avonlea: L.M. Montgomery and Popular Culture.

Summary

This vivid portrait of female friendship follows two Canadian nursing sisters who endured the trauma and privations of the Great War.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Christine McKenzie
• Assisted by: Andrea McKenzie (Editor)
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780774832533
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-3253-3
• No. of pages: 268
• Weight: 520 g
• Illustrations: 20 b&w photos, 2 maps
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Nursing; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous