Kate Marsden
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Standard Name: Marsden, Kate
A nurse and explorer, Siberia along with related essays based on her public lectures. In its early stages her work was supported by prominent figures, including
, but it came under attack from critics who disputed the truth of her writing and integrity of her life.
published a small but widely-circulated body of travel writing that at once documented her search for treatments for leprosy and served as tools for her to raise funds and awareness to support her ongoing work. She published two volumes focused on her expedition to Timeline
Texts
Marsden, Kate. My Mission in Siberia; a Vindication. Edward Stanford, 1921.
Marsden, Kate. On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers. Record Press.
Marsden, Kate. “The Leper”. The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman’s Building, World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U.S.A., 1893, edited by Mary Kavanaugh Oldham Eagle, Monarch Book Company, 1894, pp. 213-16.