67. Virginia Cowles — Looking for Trouble with Judith Mackrell
World War II correspondent Virginia Cowles
Guest Judith Mackrell’s thrilling 2021 book The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II sets the stage for our discussion of wartime correspondent Virginia Cowles and her sensational 1941 memoir, Looking for Trouble, which was reissued by Faber this fall.
Discussed in this episode:
Lost Ladies of Lit on Gertrude Trevelyan with Brad Bigelow
Looking for Trouble by Virginia Cowles (Faber)
The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II by Judith Mackrell
Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Martha Gellhorn