Giuseppe Garibaldi

After the end of the Italian Risorgimento, JWM and her circle scorned the newly-established Italian royal family. They were dissatisfied with the regime established by Garibaldi , and hoped to see the establishment of a republic.

After returning to Italy from Switzerland, JWM and her husband sailed aboard the Washington from Genoa to Sicily as part of Garibaldi 's invading fleet.

In June 1882, JWM lost her good friend Giuseppe Garibaldi .

JWM and her husband crossed from Sicily to mainland Italy with a regiment of soldiers loyal to Italian nationalist Garibaldi .

Garibaldi introduced her to Orsini when he was exiled in England; he also suggested that Jessie should attempt the translation. The book was a wonderful success, selling 35,000 copies in one year. A...

During the Austro-Prussian War (or Seven Weeks war), JWM followed Italian nationalist Garibaldi into battle in the Tyrol, acting again as a field nurse to the wounded.

JWM published her accounts of the Franco-Prussian War in the Scotsman after joining Garibaldi 's troops while they fought alongside their former enemy, France.

Vita di Giuseppe Garibaldi, JWM 's biography of the Italian revolutionary, appeared.

JWM contributed a one-volume supplement to Alice Werner 's English translation of the Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi.

JWM made her literary debut in Eliza Cook's Journal, but it was her involvement in the Italian Risorgimento (sometimes as a spy) that fostered her career as a journalist, translator, propagandist, lecturer, and biographer...

She travelled with one of Garibaldi 's sons , who needed medical attention in England.

She arrived in London determined to study medicine so that she could serve as a field nurse during Garibaldi 's campaigns. She was refused entry to fourteen London hospitals. On 10 July 1856, a representative...

Garibaldi wrote to her before the expedition with the warning that Mazzini's plan was destined to fail. She was imprisoned for four months, all the while maintaining her innocence and demanding a trial. She later...

The groom spoke no almost no English. The couple had been engaged before their arrest, but most of their courtship played out by letter during their incarceration. Though Alberto shared his wife's commitment to the...

She dealt with books on such topics as biography, nursing and health issues, slavery, marriage, and North America. Among titles she probably covered were Florence Nightingale 's Notes on Nursing, George Browne 's The...