Susanne R. Day (c. 1890–?)

Abstract

Born in Cork, Ireland, Day wrote several plays that were produced at the Abbey Theatre before serving for twenty months in Bar-le-Duc, France, as a relief worker among the refugees from the fighting at the front. She published Round About Bar-le-Duc early in 1918, upon her return to England, at the prompting of her close friend, Carol. It is, she says, rather than ‘a book about English women in France, it is mainly a book about French women in their own country…’ Nevertheless, as the following excerpts suggest, she reveals quite a bit about herself as well.