My Experiences on Three Fronts [1916, War Nursing]

My Experiences on Three Fronts [1916, War Nursing]

Author: Sister Martin-Nicholson

Year: 1916

Digitised by Google Books from the collection at Lyon Public Library https://books.google.com/books?id=e1EZnNI7tA8C The following article says Martin-Nicholson was born Mary Gripper in 1883 in suburban London, trained as a nurse, had a short marriage but kept her husband’s surname of Martin-Nicholson , then joined the Red Cross on commencement of the war. By 1916 she had returned to London, where she remarried and took her second husband’s name of Cooke. In 1921 she commenced writing romantic novels under the pen name Joan Conquest. “In their vivid descriptions of far-flung locations, they evidenced her growing reputation as ‘the world’s greatest woman traveller’. ” In 1933, Conquest completed an exposé of the living conditions of the poor in London. She also wrote science fiction. https://womenshistorynetwork.org/who-was-joan-conquest-michelle-johansen/ ( https://web.archive.org/web/20230710031627/https://womenshistorynetwork.org/web/20230710031627/https://womenshistorynetwork.org/who-was-joan-conquest-michelle-johansen/ archived link )