[image error] Dorothy Lawrence was eighteen when the First World War broke out and was living in Paris looking for work as a newspaper journalist. In the early days of the war it was almost impossible for newspapers to get accurate information from the front lines as all civilians were barred from the area, so when Dorothy wrote to editors, suggesting that she might become a war reporter for them, the universal response was ridicule. If they couldn't get male reporters to the front, what hope did a mere wo...