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While it is yet Day: The Story of Elizabeth Fry

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Rebecca Wallersteiner

Rebecca Wallersteiner takes a look at the 19th century’s greatest prison and nursing reformer Elizabeth Fry – the sober face on our fivers. Only three things frightened Elizabeth Fry, writes Averil Douglas Opperman in her timely and well-researched biography: ‘the sea, darkness and death.’ Drawing on Fry’s family archive, her diaries, personal letters and an […]

An Entertaining Holiday Read for Doctors

Posted on August 20, 2016 (November 19, 2025) by Rebecca Wallersteiner

Rebecca Wallersteiner takes a look at the 19th century’s greatest, visionary army doctor who was hiding a secret – he was a woman dressing as a man. Drawing on a decade of research in archives all over the world, including previously unknown material, Dr Michael du Preez, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons […]