Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications, 1994.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Isabella Bird | About a year after her husband
's death, IB
enrolled in a three-month nursing course at St Mary's Hospital
in Paddington, London. Checkland, Olive. Isabella Bird and ’A Woman’s Right to Do What She Can Do Well’. Scottish Cultural Press, 1996. 96 |
| Occupation | Nancy Mitford | NM
did a range of volunteer work during the Second World War. She volunteered briefly at St Mary's Hospital
, Paddington, ran a canteen for French soldiers, and assisted with Jewish evacuees from the... |
| Textual Production | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Their letter, which was published on 30 March, was a response to previous correspondence from Sir James Purves-Stewart
, Senior Physician at Westminster Hospital
. He had written that new women medical students should not... |
Timeline
1831
A severe epidemic of puerperal fever struck in Manchester.
1874
St Mary's Hospital
, London, chemically produced the drug heroin from morphine; it was later patented in the 1890s by the pharmaceutical company Bayer
.
September 1928
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