VC
's pseudonym was apparently a complicated private joke, implying both that Cross believed she deserved recognition for her valour in defying conventional mores (the Victoria Cross being the highest British military award for heroism)...
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Victoria Cross
Printed as one of the Lane's Keynotes Series—which had already included Allen
's The Woman Who Did—The Woman Who Didn't introduced VC
's writing to the public in connection with both New...
