Tag: Heroine

Sister Janet Nurse & Heroine of the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879


Free Download Sister Janet: Nurse & Heroine of the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879 by Brian Best, Katie Stossel
English | January 31st, 2020 | ISBN: 1526783371 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 4.60 MB
Janet Wells achievements make for fascinating reading. She was only 18 when decorated for her nursing service to the Russians in the 1878 Balkan War. The following year she became the only nurse to serve at the Front in the Anglo-Zulu War. After a period in Northern Zululand, she was sent to the garrison at Rorkes Drift very soon after the legendary action. Revered by the soldiers, she had to make do in appalling conditions with scant supplies. She overcame extreme difficulties and prejudice despite her youth.

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How to Be a Heroine Or, What I’ve Learned from Reading too Much


Free Download Samantha Ellis, "How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I’ve Learned from Reading too Much"
English | ISBN: 1101872098 | 2015 | 272 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
While debating literature’s greatest heroines with her best friend, thirtysomething playwright Samantha Ellis has a revelation-her whole life, she’s been trying to be Cathy Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights when she should have been trying to be Jane Eyre.

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