Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Society for the State Registration of Nurses
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10 December 1887: Mrs Ethel Fenwick, with twenty-nine hospital...
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10 December 1887
Mrs Ethel Fenwick
, with twenty-nine hospital matrons, officially named and founded the British Nurses' Association
; this was the first organized attempt by nurses to improve the status of their profession.
McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.