Words in pain : letters on life and death / Olga Jacoby ; edited by Jocelyn Catty and Trevor Moore.

"First published posthumously in 1919, Words in Pain represents the collected letters of Olga Jacoby - writer, thinker and rationalist. Writing to her Christian doctor as she endures the emotional highs and lows of terminal illness, she challenges his beliefs and celebrates the power of science, nature and love. [...] As heart-breaking as they are erudite, Jacoby's letters reveal a progressive attitude to child-rearing and adoption, as well as a passionate commitment to moral logic and social justice. They show her to be as strong of mind as she was increasingly weak in body, and a woman both of and ahead of her time."--From book jacket.