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"In central Brussels stands a statue of a young woman. Built in 1923, it is the first monument to a working-class woman in European history. Her name was Gabrielle Petit. History has forgotten Petit, an ambitious and patriotic Belgian, executed by firing squad in 1916 for her role as an intelligence agent for the British Army. After the First World War she was celebrated as an example of stern endeavour, but a hundred years later her memory has faded. In the first part of this historical biography Sophie De Schaepdrijver uses Petit's life to explore gender, class and heroism in the context of…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2015Bloomsbury Academic · 258 pages · 9781472590879
World War, 1914-1918Secret serviceUnderground movementsWomen spiesBiographySpiesWorld war, 1914-1918, secret serviceWorld war, 1914-1918, belgium