Labelled a “cripple,” Hall was turned down for promotions and relegated to menial secretarial tasks. Things became even worse after she lost the bottom half of her left leg after a hunting accident. However, her career in the diplomatic service was constrained by the fact that she was female. Desiring to stay in Europe, she got a series of jobs with the State Department. Travelling to Paris in the 1920’s at the height of the “Années folles,” Hall developed a deep love of France that would dramatically shape her life. A lot of this renewed interest is inspired by the 2019 release of Purnell’s vigorously researched biography “A Woman of No Importance.”īorn into a wealthy family in Baltimore, Hall was an adventurous, free thinking child, who bounced from school to school and rebelled against her mother’s desire that she secure the financial future of the family by marrying well. One film about her was recently released and another is in the works. In the past couple of years, three new books about her life have been published. Virginia Hall has been described as “the most important American spy that you have never heard of ” however, that last part is fast changing.
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