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Historical person
1873–1956
Maud Allan was a Canadian-born dancer and performer famed for her sensual Vision of Salomé. In 1918 she brought a libel case against the conspiracy theorist Noel Pemberton Billing, but the trial turned into a sensational attack on her sexuality, reputation and alleged wartime disloyalty.
Pat Barker’s The Eye in the Door places Maud Allan within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, political ambition and government, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life.
Historical context
Series
The Regeneration Trilogy follows soldiers, doctors, poets and civilians during the final two years of the First World War. Its central relationship is between the neurologist and army psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers and the fictional working-class officer Billy Prior, while Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves and…
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