the secret Brussels diary of Mary Thorp
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- De Schaepdrijver, Sophie
- Creator
- Proctor, Tammy M.
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- BEL 9 THO 2017
- Thesaurus
- dagelijks leven, gouvernantes, eerste wereldoorlog, België, Nederland, dagboek
- Description
- An Englishwoman living in World War I Brussels started a secret diary in September 1916. She never wrote her name on the diary and ran to hide it every time the 'Boches' came to inspect the house. The diary survived the war and ended up in a Belgian archive, forgotten for nearly a century until De Schaepdrijver and Proctor discovered it and the woman who wrote it: Mary Thorp, a middle-aged English governess working for a wealthy Belgian-Russian family in Brussels.