As the influenza pandemic, known colloquially as “la grippe” or the Spanish Flu, spread across the globe, governments and health officials immediately began to call for the use of masks as a solution to keep more people from getting sick. Soon, the streets were filled with people wearing these gauze masks, much to the tut-tutting …
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COVER REVEAL: Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War
At long last, I am able to share the cover for Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War! Buy Now – HarperCollins | Indiebound | Amazon | Powell’s | B & N | iBooks | Add to your Goodreads shelf Top voices in historical fiction deliver an intensely moving collection of …
Married Love by Marie Stopes, the Book that Scandalized WWI Society
The war forced sexual matters to the forefront of society. Soldiers were sent to hospitals more often for venereal disease than bodily injury, young women were in contact with young men in an unchaperoned capacity for the first time, and there were even scandals over the supposed immorality within female military branches (Violet Douglas-Pennant was …