The six women celebrated are: Fossil hunter Mary Anning, who uncovered the first complete Plesiosaur skeleton. Computer ...

Many nurses know the significance of Florence Nightingale, but few have heard of Mary Jane Seacole—although they both cared for injured soldiers during the Crimean War. Mary Jane Seacole was a ...

Florence became very famous for her work during the Crimean War. Back home in Britain, a big sum of money was given so that more nurses could be trained. After Florence returned to England ...

Florence Nightingale is widely considered the first professional nurse, though she was also a statistician and prodigious ...

Santa Filomena ,” which he wrote for The Atlantic ’s inaugural issue, in November 1857, attests to his lifelong belief in the ...

Mary’s rival, Anne Hastings, is based on Anne Reading, an English nurse trained by Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. Her memoir reveals an independent woman defined by her vocation.

She started her career helping out in London hospitals and at the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1854 travelled with others to Scutari to nurse the wounded. Luckily she recovered from a bout of fever ...

was a British nurse put in charge of nursing British and Allied soldiers in Turkey during the Crimean War. She spent many hours in the wards, and her night rounds giving personal care to the ...

The story of Mary Seacole, a 19th-century Jamaican nurse who cared for soldiers on the battlefield in the Crimean War, offers an opportunity to recognize countless invisible heroines through the ...