An image from the book Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses
London, United Kingdom
The British Library
1857
Frances Margaret Taylor converted to the Roman Catholic faith from Anglicanism and founded the order of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God. In Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses (1856) she describes her experience as a nurse, prior to her conversion, in the hospitals of Scutari and Koulali, during the Crimean War, with Florence Nightingale. In addition to her personal experience, the book gives an account of medical and sanitary conditions, voluntary service and nursing, one of the few volunteering and job opportunities available to British women in the 19th century. The Crimean War carried nurses outside the boundaries of their country. The book highlights how their support was crucial in the organisation of medical activity and living conditions in the British military hospitals in Turkey and Crimea.
Taylor, Fanny Margaret, Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses; the narrative of twelve months' experience in the Hospitals of Koulali and Scutari. By a Lady Volunteer. [Miss Fanny M. Taylor], London, 1857, p. 6
Maria Francesca Carvelli (MWNF) "An image from the book Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;uk;134;en
Prepared by: Maria Francesca Carvelli (MWNF)
MWNF Working Number: UK 134
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