American Red Cross

SB resigned from her position with the American Red Cross in Serbia, boarded the Orient Express , and returned to Paris.

Her job was (apart from the constant knitting without which no decent woman cared to be seen) to convince the USA just how desperate was the need for food in England, where supplies...

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. For all her health problems...

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 .

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...

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...