Pearls Before Poppies

The True Story of the Red Cross Pearls

Rachel Trethewey

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HISTORY PRESS
01 September 2019

History; First World War

The moving story of the 1918 Red Cross Pearl Necklace Appeal, and the women who donated pearls in soldiers' memory.

In February 1918, Lady Northcliffe, wife of the owner of The Daily Mail and The Times had the idea of raising funds for the Red Cross by asking women to give a pearl as a tribute to the dead and the wounded in the Great War. The plan was to create a necklace which would be auctioned at Christie's. However, the idea grew beyond her greatest expectations. It captured the public's imagination and over the next nine months nearly four thousand pearls poured in not just from Britain but from across the world. The pearls were discussed in drawing rooms, written about in The Times and even debated in Parliament. The story of the Red Cross Pearls is an historical gem which has never been told in detail before. Drawing on the archives of the Red Cross, Christie's and the Victoria and Albert Museum, this book traces the story of the Red Cross Pearl Appeal throughout the eventful year of 1918. Interweaving the story of the campaign with the personal stories behind individual pearls this book provides a snapshot of a world that was changed forever by the war.

AUTHOR: Rachel Trethewey read History at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where she won the Philip Geddes Prize for student journalism. During her subsequent journalist career she wrote features for the Daily Mail and Daily Express. Her biography of Georgina, Duchess of Bedford, Mistress of the Arts, was published by Headline Review in 2002. She regularly reviews historical books and biographies for The Independent.

24 b/w

illustrations

By: Rachel Trethewey
Imprint: HISTORY PRESS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9780750992091
ISBN 10: 0750992093
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 September 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

RACHEL TRETHEWEY read History at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where she won the Philip Geddes Prize for student journalism. During her journalist career she wrote features for the Daily Mail and Daily Express. She has written Mistress of the Arts (Headline Review, 2002) and Before Wallis (THP, 2018), and regularly reviewed historical books and biographies for The Independent. She lives in Devon.