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Venezia Tridentina (Trentino and Alto Adige)

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Venezia Tridentina (Trentino and South Tyrol)

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Border between Trentino and Alto Adige

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Message dated December 14, 1917

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Saturday, August 21, 1915

"August 21, 1915

Yesterday was the most thrilling day of my life. I passed it right in the very midst of the war zone, having been fortunate enough to be allowed as the only woman correspondent to join the other representatives of the Italian and foreign papers who are up here in the Trentino. Being an Italian by birth, this experience is doubly wonderful to me as it enables me to see at close quarters the splendid work which my countrymen have done and are doing, and also to have had the privilege of being the first Italian woman to cross the new boundary line between Italy and Austria."

Quotation Context

Magdeleine ver Mehr, writing on August 21, 1915 from Trentino on the Italian Front for the American general interest magazine Littell's Living Age or simply Living Age.

Source

Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I by Margaret R. Higonnet, page 140, copyright © Margaret Higonnet, 1999, publisher: Plume/Penguin Group, publication date: 1999

Tags

1915-08-21, 1915, August, Trentino