Giuseppe Garibaldi

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 worked as a field nurse for Garibaldi 's Redshirts during several campaigns. During the Sicilian campaign, she, Alberto , and Garibaldi travelled the countryside to inspect local prisons and hospitals. Alberto was given the...

Though only twenty-eight, JWM acted as field hospital director at Caserta and Santa Maria during Garibaldi's Neapolitan campaign, often working under horrid conditions. In honour of her dedication, she was presented with a gold medal...

To get to France she travelled by train, both miliary and civilian, as well as dog-cart. This was to be her last rush into battle. Although present primarily as a reporter, she also attended to...

While studying at the Sorbonne , Jessie White (later JWM ) travelled with friends to Italy, where she met Garibaldi .

JWM 's husband was against Garibaldi 's offer of support for France in its war against Prussia, largely because France had occupied parts of Italy. This time he refused to join Jessie when she travelled into battle.

JWM and her husband arrived in Milan at about the time that fighting broke out between the forces of Austria (the governing power) and Garibaldi 's regiments.

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.

By 1858 she was in correspondence with Harriet Martineau . She also knew John Stuart Mill , Giuseppe Garibaldi , James Clark , Edwin Chadwick , William Rathbone , Julia Wedgwood , Elizabeth Barrett Browning

FMP published in the Cornhill Magazine reminiscences of her uncle Colonel John Whitehead Peard and of Garibaldi , with whose forces Colonel Peard had fought in Italy.