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One Woman's War, 1914-18. The Letters of Caroline Ethel Cooper. Edited and with an introduction by Decie Denholm. Pp. [viii]+312, 12 plates, map, biographical notes, chronology, index; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, backstrip a little sunned; title page signed and dated by the editor, Decie Denholm; Collins, Sydney, 1982. First edition. *Adelaide-born Caroline Cooper began travelling the world at the age of twenty- six, and had been living and studying music in Leipzig for some years when war was declared in 1914. Although most non-Germans left as soon as possible, she chose to stay, and throughout the war wrote to her sister in Adelaide once a week. Some of the letters were smuggled out to Switzerland and posted in 1915; others were hidden, at times between pages of Beethoven's string quartets. The 227 letters are now deposited in the Archives of the State Library of South Australia. Item #096544
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