Rebecca D. Larson

One of three small paperbacks Larson wrote on Civil War women. Includes brief synopsis on about 50 women who worked as nurses during the Civil War. Louisa May Alcott, Sally Tompkins, Dorothea Dix, Cornelia Hancock, Katherine Wormeley, Mary Walker (who would have been very upset at being listed as a nurse), Phoebe Yates Pember, Juliet Opie Hopkins (another doctor) Elizabeth Blackwell (another doctor) Sophronia Bucklin, Fannie Beers, Kate Cummings, Clara Barton, etc. The above are fairly well known, the book also includes numerous unknown heroines.… (lisätietoja)