A part of the war effort, doing a man's work when she"d rather be in London, painting, going to parties and exhibitions" (Pg. 130). Similarly, the reader learned of another strong female character, named Mrs. Sally Davenant, who volunteered to nurse the wounded at a friend's house in Gloucester shire, which had been turned into a hospital. Mrs. Davenant had no formal medical training except for tending to her husband in his last illness and therefore, she had indirectly become familiar with the ill. Mrs. Davenant had quickly developed skills in dressing wounds, taking off bloody bed-cloths, removing stitches and assisting doctors in criical cases. Clearly, the war economy opened up other opportunities to women as never before. In addition to these efforts, the British government allowed citizens to take on German prisoners of war to work on the farmland in rural cities. These German men often agreed to labour in the fields rather than endure inhumane conditions of British concentration camps. In the harvest season, Ms. Catherine Tarrant applied for three German men and gradually developed a romantic relationship with a prisoner of war named Rolf Linden. Linden was a lawyer and his family belonged to the German upper class, however, "as far as everyone in Upper Street ham was concerned, the only good German was a dead one" (Pg. 137). Many laws prohibited interracial marriages and people rejected the possibility of interracial children. Once speculation and gossip spread through the town, Ms. Tarrant fell from the good graces of many and became ignored, despised and shunned by many villagers. In 1919, group of civilians took to the streets in London to engage in strikes and protests against the government. Many people suffered from hunger and died of influenza. The war had changed so many lives and in Warwickshire, "death came as frequently as it did anywhere else in England" (Pg.
