Actions for Letters from Vera Scantlebury Brown, 49 - 54 : Correspondence 19180202-19180306
Letters from Vera Scantlebury Brown, 49 - 54 : Correspondence 19180202-19180306
- Author
- Brown, Vera Scantlebury
- Published
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators
- Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
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- Summary
- Description: In these letters Vera records her daily work at London Hospitals, including Endell Street Military Hospital. She also notes visits to Bluestocking friends, recreational activities, and medical work. She comments in one letter the "my wards have more medical than surgical cases in at present hence less operating lately". Vera also comments on the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps Ward at Endell Hospital, and other war news of German advances. In one letter Vera describes exploring London sights and witnessing a "splint show" given at a hospital, teaching officers wives the practice.
- Other Subject(s)
- Employment and Labour
- Leisure and Entertainment
- Domesticity and the Family
- medical examination, children, soldier, tourism, letter writing, family, medicine, hospital, weather, employment, visit, socialization, travel, public transport, domesticity, World War I, warfare, feminism, women's suffrage, food, death, church, nature, exercise, recreation, leisure, World War I, warfare, beauty, nationality, conversation, politics
- Browne, Hamilton
- Bage, Jessie
- Johnson, Bill
- Stevenson, Dorothy
- Women's Auxiliary Army Corps
- Paris
- Farnham
- London
- Note
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the catalogue of The University of Melbourne.
AMDigital Reference: 1984.0082. - Original Version
- Reproduction of: Letters from Vera Scantlebury Brown, 49 - 54 2 Feb - 6 Mar 1918.
- Location of Originals
- The University of Melbourne
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