May Sinclair

A Journal of Impressions in Belgium May Sinclair

A Journal of Impressions in Belgium, a fictionalised record of Sinclair's experiences and one of the first wartime women's diaries published in Britain. The journal describes in minute detail the few days she spent with the corps, ferrying wounded men between Ghent and Ostend before the Fall of Antwerp. The tone is overwhelmingly one of inadequacy and regret - Sinclair is acutely aware of her unlikely and, ultimately, unhelpful presence at the front line - yet this tension is what lends the text its significance.