Giuseppe Garibaldi

JWM published her accounts of the Franco-Prussian War in the Scotsman after joining Garibaldi 's troops while they fought alongside their former enemy, France.

Vita di Giuseppe Garibaldi, JWM 's biography of the Italian revolutionary, appeared.

JWM contributed a one-volume supplement to Alice Werner 's English translation of the Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi.

JWM made her literary debut in Eliza Cook's Journal, but it was her involvement in the Italian Risorgimento (sometimes as a spy) that fostered her career as a journalist, translator, propagandist, lecturer, and biographer...

She travelled with one of Garibaldi 's sons , who needed medical attention in England.

She arrived in London determined to study medicine so that she could serve as a field nurse during Garibaldi 's campaigns. She was refused entry to fourteen London hospitals. On 10 July 1856, a representative...

Garibaldi wrote to her before the expedition with the warning that Mazzini's plan was destined to fail. She was imprisoned for four months, all the while maintaining her innocence and demanding a trial. She later...

The groom spoke no almost no English. The couple had been engaged before their arrest, but most of their courtship played out by letter during their incarceration. Though Alberto shared his wife's commitment to the...

She worked as a field nurse for Garibaldi 's Redshirts during several campaigns. During the Sicilian campaign, she, Alberto , and Garibaldi travelled the countryside to inspect local prisons and hospitals. Alberto was given the...

Though only twenty-eight, JWM acted as field hospital director at Caserta and Santa Maria during Garibaldi's Neapolitan campaign, often working under horrid conditions. In honour of her dedication, she was presented with a gold medal...

To get to France she travelled by train, both miliary and civilian, as well as dog-cart. This was to be her last rush into battle. Although present primarily as a reporter, she also attended to...

While studying at the Sorbonne , Jessie White (later JWM ) travelled with friends to Italy, where she met Garibaldi .

JWM 's husband was against Garibaldi 's offer of support for France in its war against Prussia, largely because France had occupied parts of Italy. This time he refused to join Jessie when she travelled into battle.

By 1858 she was in correspondence with Harriet Martineau . She also knew John Stuart Mill , Giuseppe Garibaldi , James Clark , Edwin Chadwick , William Rathbone , Julia Wedgwood , Elizabeth Barrett Browning

FMP published in the Cornhill Magazine reminiscences of her uncle Colonel John Whitehead Peard and of Garibaldi , with whose forces Colonel Peard had fought in Italy.