RussellW. In: HudsonR, ed. William Russell: Special Correspondent of The Times.London: The Folio Society, 1999: P25
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Crimea. In: RoyleT. The Great Crimean War 1854-1856.London: Little, Brown and Company, 1999: P248
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Only six wives per company of a hundred men were officially taken ‘on the strength’. Many others, fearing destitution, contrived to follow the army but no arrangements were made for their care. (No place for ladies. Helen Rappaport. P 23)
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RappaportH.No place for ladies.The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War.London: Aurum Press, 2008: P103
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Mary met Thomas Day. the manager of the New Grenada Goldmining Company, when she travelled to Escribanos, seventy miles from Colon, on the Isthmus of Panama to try prospecting for gold. She later claimed that Day was a distant connection of her late husband, Edwin Seacole
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SeacoleM. In: SalihS, ed. The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands. First published 1857. London: Penguin Books, 2005: P87
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Pacha — a high ranking Turkish officer or a provincial governor
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Nightingale earned this sobriquet (which she hated) after banning nurses from the wards after 8.30 p.m. because of their tendency to drunkenness and fornication with the patients. In spite of her heavy workload, she herself patrolled the corridors and wards at night
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Charles Dickens and CharlotteBronte wrote vivid descriptions of the type of woman who might be a nurse. In Martin Chuzzlewit Sarah Gamp is an alcoholic nurse/midwife and in Shirley, Mrs Horsfall is a strong woman given to alcohol and tobacco
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Alexis Benoist Soyer (1810-1858) was a French chef who worked first for the Duke of Cambridge and then at the Reform Club in London. He visited Ireland during the Potato Famine and devised a soup kitchen in Dublin to feed the thousands of starving people. In the Crimea, Soyer reorganized the supplying of provisions to army hospitals and invented a field stove whereby every soldier could be given a nutritious meal
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Extract from a letter from Florence Nightingale to Sir Harry Verney: 5th August 1870
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The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands. Op. cit. P101
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CRIMEA, The Great Crimean War, 1854–1856, Trevor Royle, Little, Brown & Co. (UK), London, 1999
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RUSSELLWILLIAM, Special Correspondent of The Times, Ed. HudsonRoger, The Folio Society, London, 1995
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NO PLACE FOR LADIES, The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War, Helen Rappaport, Aurum Press, London, 2008
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WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF MRS. SEACOLE IN MANY LANDS, Mary Seacole, (first published 1857 James Blackwood), Penguin Classics., London, 2005
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NIGHTINGALEFLORENCE, The Woman and her Legend., Mark Bostridge, Viking, London, 2008
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AS MISS NIGHTINGALE SAID …, Florence Nightingale Through Her Sayings – a Victorian Perspective., Ed. BalyMonica, Scutari Press, London, 1991
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SEACOLEMARY, Ron Ramdin, Halls Publishing, London, 2005
