Journal of Impressions in Belgium
Author: first_name: May
last_name: Sinclair
Language: English
Year: 1915

In 1914, at the age of 51, the novelist and poet May Sinclair volunteered to leave the comforts of England to go to the Western Front, joining the Munro Ambulance Corps ministering to wounded Belgian soldiers in Flanders.  Her experiences in the Great War, brief and traumatizing as they were, permeated the prose and poetry she wrote after this time.  Witness of great human pain and tragedy, Sinclair was in serious danger of her life on multiple occasions.  This journal makes no attempt to be any