A lame dog's diary: a NOVEL . By: Sarah Broom Macnaughtan (en Inglés)
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Sarah Broom Macnaughtan (26 October 1864 - 24 July 1916) was a Scottish-born novelist. During the outbreak of the First World War, she volunteered with the Red Cross Society and was sent to Russia and eventually Armenia. She wrote extensively about the plight of the Armenian refugees of the Armenian Genocide. She died due to an illness she contracted while abroad.Born in Partick, Scotland, the fourth daughter and sixth child of Peter Macnaughtan and Julia Blackman, she was home schooled by her father. After her parents died, she moved to Kent in England, then to London. There she would embark on a career as a writer, with her first novel, Selah Harrison, being published in 1898. The best known of her works were The fortune of Christina M'Nab (1901), A lame dog's diary (1905), and The expensive Miss Du Cane (1900).She became well-traveled, journeying to, among other locations, Canada, South America, South Africa, the Middle East and India. Sarah participated in the women's suffrage movement, aided victims of the Balkan war, performed social services for the poor in London's East End, and worked for the Red Cross during the Second Boer War
