English Governess in the Great War
Author
Tammy M. Proctor (Walter L. And Helen P. Ferree Professor Of Modern European History, Walter L. And
, Sophie De Schaepdrijver (Professor Of History, Professor Of History, Utah State University)
Mary Thorp, an English governess working for a Belgian-Russian family in German-occupied Brussels, kept a secret war diary from September 1916 to January 1919. This long-forgotten diary sheds light on an important aspect of the First World War: civilian life under military occupation in a transnational conflict.