Giuseppe Garibaldi

Garibaldi introduced her to Orsini when he was exiled in England; he also suggested that Jessie should attempt the translation. The book was a wonderful success, selling 35,000 copies in one year. A...

Many of the poems are temperance pieces; others treat religious topics. Spirit-Rapping employs satiric humour to attack what seems to JH self-evidently impious—nonsensical—absurd. Her attacks on injustice are direct and unstinting, whether denouncing the...

Stock patriotic attitudes are voiced in The Gallant English Tar, and The Banner of Union, verging on the jingoistic in We'll Stand to our Guns and Hurrah! for our Riflemen! Clearly no coherent...

There is considerable tension in EJ 's social vision, in part because she lacked literary models in which a feminist and proletarian stance might be articulated. Thus while some poems represent the factory as a...

After many adventures, including involvement with a beautiful French girl but not including finding the object of his quest, Spiridion returns to Sicily in time to join Garibaldi 's army of liberation. The father, discovered...

She dealt with books on such topics as biography, nursing and health issues, slavery, marriage, and North America. Among titles she probably covered were Florence Nightingale 's Notes on Nursing, George Browne 's The...

JWM and her husband arrived in Milan at about the time that fighting broke out between the forces of Austria (the governing power) and Garibaldi 's regiments.