American Red Cross

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Fictionalization Louisa May Alcott
A recent surge of interest has produced (as well as John Matteson 's and Eve LaPlante 's studies of LAM and her father and her mother) a monograph by Harriet Reisin , 2009; a study...
Occupation Muriel Spark
After her intelligence work came a succession of temporary office jobs: for a different branch of the Foreign Office , for a tea company, and for the American Red Cross .
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.
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Occupation Sylvia Beach
SB worked for twelve hours a day and yet she wrote to her parents to tell them that she had never felt better in her life. She wore riding breeches and amused the locals with...
politics Annie S. Swan
Her job was (apart from the constant knitting without which no decent woman cared to be seen)
Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1934.
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to convince the USA just how desperate was the need for food in England, where supplies...
politics Sylvia Beach
SB was sympathetic to the suffragist movement. In 1913-14, she wrote to her sister proudly advertising that she had made her cousin Mary subscribe to the Suffragette Newsletter.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983.
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For all her health problems...
Residence Sylvia Beach
SB resigned from her position with the American Red Cross in Serbia, boarded the Orient Express , and returned to Paris.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983.
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Timeline

1899: Clara Barton, founder of the American Red...

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1899

Clara Barton , founder of the American Red Cross , became the first woman to make a submarine descent.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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