Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
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Occupation
Kate Marsden
At about this time, she also received the Royal British Nurses' Association
's silver medal, presented by Princess Christian
(Queen Victoria's fifth child, known in her family as Lenchen).
Baigent, Elizabeth. “Kate Marsden: 18591931”. Geographers Biobibliographical Studies, edited by Hayden Lorimer and Charles W. J. Withers, Continuum, 2008, pp. 63-92.
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Timeline
1872: The Royal School of Art Needlework was founded...
Building item
1872
The Royal School of Art Needlework
was founded by Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
, daughter of Queen Victoria (formerly known as Princess Helena).
Cumming, Elizabeth, and Wendy Kaplan. The Arts and Crafts Movement. Thames and Hudson, 1991.
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Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, editors. The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan, 1983.
1885: Queen Victoria sent a £500 donation to the...
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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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.