Katharine McMahon is a British historical novelist. She has taught in secondary schools, performed in local theater, and worked as a Royal Literary Fund fellow teaching writing skills at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Warwick. Her titles include The Alchemist’s Daughter, Season of Light, The Crimson Rooms, and The Rose of Sebastopol.At the Guardian, McMahon tagged ten of her favorite books about nursing, including:
Endell Street [US title: No Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I] by Wendy MooreRead about another entry on the list.
A companion read to Vera Brittain, this is an account of a hospital set up and run entirely by women. Moore documents the tenacity of the two suffragette doctors who established the hospital, and the female team who staffed it. Previously unskilled women, some of them inexperienced even in domestic work, toiled relentlessly to nurse wounded men, and victims of the Spanish flu. Yet after the war these women were relegated to poorly paid areas of medicine, and decades later nurses were still treated as recalcitrant parlour maids by their matrons and those who fixed their pay.
--Marshal Zeringue
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