Two, and perhaps all three, of her sisters later converted to Roman Catholicism as well, and one joined the Irish Sisters of Mercy
. Parkes claimed that AP
never spoke of her conversion.
Gregory, Gill. The Life and Work of Adelaide Proctor. Ashgate, 1998.
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Parkes, Bessie Rayner. “In a Walled Garden, 1895”. Indiana University: Victorian Women Writers Project.
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Cultural formation
Bessie Rayner Parkes
She had become seriously interested in Secularism in 1857. Now, after attending the Congress for the Advancement of Social Science in Dublin in 1861, she became interested in the work of the Irish Sisters of Mercy
Occupation
Florence Nightingale
FN
was not, contrary to her official title, in charge of all the nurses in the area. The Irish Sisters of Mercy
, for instance, worked independently of FN
's influence at Koulali Hospital
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By mid-April 1856: Frances Margaret Taylor published as a Lady...
Women writers item
By mid-April 1856
Frances Margaret Taylor
published as a Lady VolunteerEastern Hospitals and English Nurses: the Narrative of Twelve Months' Experience in the Hospitals of Koulali and Scutari.
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24 October 1868: With the support of Lady Georgiana Fullerton,...