Elsie and Mairi Go to War - Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front

Informationen zum Autor Diane Atkinson was born in the North-East and educated in Cornwall and London, where she completed a PhD on the politics of women's sweated labour. At the Museum of London she worked as a lecturer and curator specialising in women's history. She has an MA from the University of East Anglia in Life-writing. She is the author of Suffragettes in Pictures, Funny Girls: Cartooning for Equality and Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick, which was published in 2003. Klappentext When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant eighteen-year old mechanic, living at home and borrowing tools from her brother. Zusammenfassung When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant eighteen-year old mechanic, living at home and borrowing tools from her brother.

Product details

• Authors: Diane Atkinson, Dr Diane Atkinson
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.02.2010
• EAN: 9781848091351
• ISBN: 978-1-84809-135-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, First World War, HISTORY / Military / World War I, HISTORY / World, General & world history, c 1910 to c 1919, General and world history, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Biography: historical, political and military, Nursing and ancillary services, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)