Letters from a Field Hospital

Reprint in the year of first publication. Includes Memoir of the author by Stephen Gwynn. 182 pages, plus 2 pp. publisher’s adverts. White cloth boards (rubbed and soiled at edges and corners). Occasional spotting internally. Inscription on endpaper. In its original dust jacket – once white but now grey and toned (dry, chipped at edges, minor loss at spine tips. Account by MAbel Dearmer (1872-1915) of her experiences in a hospital unit in Serbia during World War I. She was a writer and illustrator of children’s books prior to the war, married to Percy Dearmer, a theologian and social activist. When he volunteered to be Chaplain to a British Red Cross Ambulance unit, his wife decided to accompany him and volunteered as a hospital orderly. She was in Serbia for only three months before dying with a fever. A moving and informative account, now hard to find.