Sapper Dorothy Lawrence: The Only English Woman Soldier, Late Royal Engineers, 51st Division, 179th Tunnelling Company, B.E.F. |
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Page xi - Any girl-cyclist would have looked out of harmony with war's surroundings which marked Northern France at the time ; and this particular girl-cyclist would have looked inharmonious in any possible surroundings except primaeval chaos.
Page 153 - If he had been to a public school he would not have behaved in that way.
Page 183 - I sacrificed the chance of earning by newspaper articles written on this escapade ; as a girl compelled to earn her livelihood, I lost, temporarily anyhow, all material gain by that promise.