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From: Woman, Watching

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Chapter Three follows Louise’s time as a nurse during the First World War at a Russian POW camp on the Eastern Front. The chapter follows her first meeting and later marriage to Russian solider Gleb Nikolayevich Kirilin, her turbulent journey to Archangel to join her husband, her experiences as a nurse for the White Army, the couple’s imprisonment by the Bolsheviks, the death of Gleb, and her remaining time working in Russia.

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Merilyn Simonds

Merilyn Simonds is the author of 18 books, including the non-fiction classic The Convict Lover, Gutenberg’s Fingerprint, and most recently, the novel Refuge. The founder and first artistic director of the Kingston WritersFest, Simonds is an influential champion of writers and writing. She lives with writer and translator Wayne Grady and divides her time between Kingston, Ontario, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.