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Mary Borden (May 15, 1886 – December 2, 1968) (married names: Mary Turner; Mary Spears, Lady Spears; pseud. Bridget Maclagan) was an American-British novelist and poet whose work drew on her experiences as a war nurse.
Mary Borden. 1886–1968. American writer Mary Borden was born in Chicago and earned a BA from Vassar College in 1907. One year later, she married George Douglas Turner, a British army general and member of Parliament, and they lived in England.
Mary Borden, known as May to her close friends and family, was the daughter of a prominent Chicago millionaire. Her childhood was overshadowed by her mother’s conversion to an extreme form of evangelicalism and May escaped her influence as soon as she was old enough, setting off on a world tour.
Mary Borden died in 1968. In her 82 year life she was all these things: Chicagoan heiress | Suffragette, Missionary in India | Best-selling writer | Decorated WW1 and WW2 hero | First American woman to be awarded the French Croix de Guerre | Pioneer of mobile frontline hospitals.
12. Okt. 2018 · Mary Borden’s Forgotten World War I Ballad to Mark Centenary of Armistice Day. The heiress, poet and activist funded and oversaw military field hospitals during both world wars, penned series...
This essay focuses on the experience and literary testimony of Mary Borden, an outstanding figure in the landscape of World War I nursing. Beyond gender issues or questions of traumatic writing, what emerges out of Borden’s disjointed sketches is a phenomenology of the exceptional experience of war. Borden’s war writing sets itself at odds ...
Mary Borden (1886–1968) Chapter. pp 127–130. Cite this chapter. Download book PDF. Beyond the Home Front. Yvonne M. Klein. 36 Accesses. Abstract. Borden met and married her second husband, Major-General Sir Edward Spears, while both were serving on the Western Front.
