 During her war-time experience she wrote poetry such as 'The Song of the Mud' (1917).Notably, her work includes a striking set of sketches and short stories, "The Forbidden Zone" (1929), which was published in the same year as "A Farewell to Arms", "Good-Bye to All That" and "All Quiet on the Western Front".Even in this context, contemporary readers were disturbed at the graphic - sometimes hallucinatory - quality of work coming from a woman who had first-hand experience of life on the front line.