"Most of all, I wanted to be wicked," Susan Travers wrote, looking back at herself at the age of 16. "A wicked lady, flirting with danger and scandal."Read about her in the Guardian or check out this biography.
The wholeheartedness with which she threw herself into both forms of flirtation today wins her as sure an immortality as English life can offer. It has propelled her into the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the first woman to manage to join the French Foreign Legion, and a holder of the Croix de Guerre, the Médaille Militaire, and the Légion d'Honneur. She had the French military medal pinned on her chest by the Gaullist defence minister who had been her general and lover when she earned it.
PS -- Here's more from the Guardian about the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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