Acknowledgements
Foreword
Abbreviations
Endnotes
Index
Judith Godden is an honorary associate of the Department of History at the University of Sydney.
'Godden's portrait of Lucy Osburn is both informative and
entertaining, and it would have a wide appeal to many audiences.
This is a well‐written and engaging book. To a researcher
interested in the development of women's careers, it offers a
poignant lesson in the difficulties faced by women who stepped
outside the traditional roles of wife and mother in the Victorian
age.'
*Journal of Religious Studies*
'Godden sets Lucy Osburn’s time in Australia firmly in its social
and political context. Many of Osburn’s letters to Florence
Nightingale have survived, and Godden was able to examine in some
detail the tense relationships between Nightingale in England,
Osburn in Sydney and the various members of Sydney’s political and
medical elites.'
*Australian Journal of Politics and History*
'Godden has made extensive use of an exceptional array of primary
sources, and the research is meticulous throughout ... Lucy Osburn,
a Lady Displaced is a particularly arresting addition to medical
and nursing history, biography and colonial women’s history. Better
still, it will be read with pleasure, as well as much gain.'
*History Australia*
'Godden's book is a rich‐textured read and a major contribution to
the literature in a number of fields: Victorian studies, gender
studies, colonial history and the history of medicine and nursing.
While it is an important Australian story, Australia only provides
the setting. So much of the story is that of a lady, displaced
within the empire, restless and capable, but at the mercy of the
elements. Godden's sympathetic and rigorous treatment of the
subject will stand.'
*Nursing Inquiry*
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