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Ethel Gordon Fenwick

Standard Name: Fenwick, Ethel Gordon

Used Form: Ethel Manson

Used Form: E. G. F.

Used Form: Ethel Bedford Fenwick

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1 April 1878

Ethel Manson enrolled as a nurse-in-training at the Children's Hospital in Nottingham.

McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.

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Spring 1881

Nurse Ethel Manson became Matron of St Bartholomew's Hospital and soon took over the training of nurses.

McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.

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1885

Matron Ethel Manson developed the St Bartholomew's Hospital Trained Nurses' Institute to protect nurses' rights and independence.

McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.

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June 1887

Isla Stewart became the Matron of St Bartholomew's Hospital .

McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.

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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.

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July 1894

Mrs Ethel Fenwick and Isla Stewart began the Matrons' Council of Great Britain and Ireland .

McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.

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1902

The Society for the State Registration of Trained Nurses was founded with women's activist Louisa Stevenson as president, former Matrons' Council president Isla Stewart as vice-president, and former Royal British Nurses' Association president Ethel Gordon Fenwick

December 1919

The passing of the Registration of Nurses Act marked the successful completion by Ethel Fenwick , founder of the International Council of Nurses , of her campaign with the Society for the State Registration of Trained Nurses .

“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

May 1926

The British College of Nurses was established, with Ethel Fenwick as president and her husband Dr Bedford Fenwick as treasurer.

Abel-Smith, Brian. A History of the Nursing Profession. Heinemann, 1960.

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Cowie, Anne. “Organized Labour”. Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting since 1900, edited by Peta Allen and Moya Jolley, Faber and Faber, 1982.

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Texts

Fenwick, Ethel Gordon. “‘Olga, Queen of the Hellenes, Honours British Nurses’”. The Nursing Record & Hospital World, Vol.

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, No. 562, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, pp. 314-6.