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They felt they could achieve anything together: two brave women in war-torn Serbia

Vera Holme and Evelina Haverfield, lovers and fellow suffragettes, risked their lives as nursing staff in the first world war and exposed the absurdity of Edwardian homophobia

A studio photograph of Jack (right) and Eve. 
issue 20 April 2024
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  • Jack and Eve: Two Women in Love and at War

    Wendy Moore

    Atlantic Books, pp. 384, £22

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