Wendy Wallace – Why I Write

She recited poems to me that she’d learned at school before leaving at 14 to tend to soldiers returning wounded from the First World War. She recited poems to me that she’d learned at school before leaving at 14 to help tend to soldiers returning wounded from the First World War, and recounted the Greek myths that, as an autodidact, she’d later immersed herself in.

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