The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-16
FAMOUS AUTHORIZES
NURSING WOUNDED
Miss S. Macnaughten Has
Thrilling Experiences
THE WAR RELIEF WORK
Scene of Present Hardest Fighting Is
Also That of 1.-The Three Mus
keteers"-Gosse Prophe-
sizes Lean Times
THE WAR RELIEF WORK
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London. December Ia Special)-It
will be highly interesting to see if two
English authoresses of renown make
any use in subsequent fiction Of the
thrilling war experiences through
which they have been going of late.
They are Miss May Sinclair, who wrote
1.-THE Divine Fire" and whose new
novel; The Three Sisters" has Just
been published, and Miss S. Macnaugh-
ten, who is best known to Americans
as the author of those two genuinely
clever books. "A Lame Dogs Diary"
and "The Fortune of Christina Mac
Nab"
Both of these writer's have been
doing Red Cross work close to the fir
Ing line. Miss Macnaughton, who also
did nursing during the South African
campaign, is, of course, chief orderly
of Mrs. ST. Clair Stobart's now famous
nursing unit. and with her companions
therein nursed Belgian wounded in
Antwerp while shells were falling on
all sides of them, and afterwards rode
out of the town through burning
streets sitting on motor loads of am
munition.
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Miss Macnaughten has just gone to
France to work under the aegis of the
French Red Cross. Lady Guernsey, an
English peeress, whose husband, the
former A. d. c., to the governor of Gil
braltar, recently was killed in action
has placed her beautiful Chateau Tour
laville, near Cherbourg, at Mrs. Sto-
barts disposal as a hospital, and her
self Joined that ladys unit, and there
Miss Macnaughten is at present, look
ing after the organization of the place
which soon will be filled with French
and English wounded. Lady Guern-
sey, previous to her marriage. was the
Hon. Gladys Fellowes, the second
daughter of Baron de Ramsey, while
her late husband, Lord Guernsey, who
held the rank of second lieutenant in
the Irish Guards, was the heir oil the
eighth Earl of Aylesford.
Is Much Travelled
AS for Miss Macnaughten, (the 81
stands for Sarah by the way,) she is
familiar with many lands beside her
own, having Travelled, so she tells US,
in South America South Africa, Tur-
key, Palestine, Egypt Greece India.
Kashmir, Nepal, Burma and in the
United States and Canada, which re-
minds me that L read a most amusing
little short story of hers only last night
with the scene laid in London, Ont She
is one of the four daughters Of an
English justice of the peace, Ga title
caf real distinction, of course, in this
country, and was educated at home
In the intervals of her travels, she
worked at both music and painting, but
finally tried authorship and at once
made good with a romance called "Se-
lah Harrison" since when her novels
have included, beside the two most
renowned ones mentioned, The Expen-
sive Miss Du Cane, "The Gift" and
-Four chimneys." For her Red Cross
work in the South African war, she
received a diploma and a decoration
Her London home is In Norfolk street.
which turns out of ultra aristocratic
Park Lane, and just previous 20 the
war she had been trying her prentice
hand a playwrghting, this first essay
taking the form of a stage version
of christina MacNab."
AS for May Sinclair, her experiences
in Belgium proved too much for this
little wisp of a woman, and she is now
recuperating down at Reeth, In York
shire, where she has house. and which
village, incidentally, is the Garth" of
her new novel Directly the war broke
out, Miss Sinclair practically aban-
doned the literary work and went in
for Red Cross training, and, on Sep
TENDER 25 started for Client with Dr.
Hector Munro's motor ambulance corps
intending to make the famous treaty
city their headquarters until the end
4 of the war.
Belgian Experiences
In Belgium some terrific experiences
awaited her. The ambulance to which
she was attached had to dodge about
under severe shrapnel fire in its work
of picking up wounded men and con-
veying them to the hospital. After
being driven out of Client by the Ger
y her as
capped to Bruges, but no sooner had
they arrived there than they were
forced to leave for Ostend and even
tually had to flee from that town to-
England by one of the last passenger
steamers. 1t will be sometime before
she takes up her pen again, but she
will have some wonderful material
when she does resume work.
For those who have read the nov