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You'll fall in love with Wendy Moore and Jack and Eve Peculiar Book Club Podcast
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In this bonus episode of the Peculiar Book Club we got a chance to sit down with author Wendy Moore for a preview conversation of her new book Jack and Eve.
Jack and Eve: Two Women in Love and at War, is published by Atlantic Books in the UK. It tells the
story of Vera 'Jack' Holme and Evelina Haverfield, pioneering suffragettes who became lovers. Jack was an actress who specialised in cross-dressing
roles. She became official chauffeur to suffragette leader Emmeline
Pankhurst. Eve, who was born into the British aristocracy, was an
intrepid traveller who became one
of the suffragettes' most active speakers and agitators. In the First
World War they went to Serbia with the Scottish
Women's Hospitals (SWH) voluntary organisation to
provide medical aid to the Serbian Army. When Serbia was invaded they
were taken prisoners of war. After being freed, they travelled to Russia
with the SWH to drive ambulances right up to the firing line on the
Dobruja front. They were devoted lifelong partners but
also pioneers of new ways of living and loving. Jack enjoyed numerous
liaisons with other women - detailed in her diaries - and especially
favoured three-way relationships. But when Eve died, in
Serbia soon after the war ended, Jack was devastated. Jack and Eve is a love story set against the backdrop of intense acts of bravery during the First World War.
In this bonus episode of the Peculiar Book Club we got a chance to sit down with author Wendy Moore for a preview conversation of her new book Jack and Eve.
Jack and Eve: Two Women in Love and at War, is published by Atlantic Books in the UK. It tells the
story of Vera 'Jack' Holme and Evelina Haverfield, pioneering suffragettes who became lovers. Jack was an actress who specialised in cross-dressing
roles. She became official chauffeur to suffragette leader Emmeline
Pankhurst. Eve, who was born into the British aristocracy, was an
intrepid traveller who became one
of the suffragettes' most active speakers and agitators. In the First
World War they went to Serbia with the Scottish
Women's Hospitals (SWH) voluntary organisation to
provide medical aid to the Serbian Army. When Serbia was invaded they
were taken prisoners of war. After being freed, they travelled to Russia
with the SWH to drive ambulances right up to the firing line on the
Dobruja front. They were devoted lifelong partners but
also pioneers of new ways of living and loving. Jack enjoyed numerous
liaisons with other women - detailed in her diaries - and especially
favoured three-way relationships. But when Eve died, in
Serbia soon after the war ended, Jack was devastated. Jack and Eve is a love story set against the backdrop of intense acts of bravery during the First World War.
27 min