Lonsdale, Margaret. Sister Dora: A Biography. New York: Scribner and Welford, 1880. [12414]
Blue cloth with bright gilt titles & decoration, small light blotch on front cover, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, tight. Steel engraved portrait of Sister Dora as frontispiece, [viii], 257 clean pp., one additional plate. Binder's ticket on rear paste-down, "Bound by Burn & Co." This may indicate that the book was bound in London for the American trade. Very good. Hardcover.
Dorothy Wyndow Pattison (1832-1878), "Sister Dora," Anglican nun and surgical nurse. She was a member of the Anglican Sisterhood of the Good Samaritan, and was remembered for her management of the hospital in Walsall and for her skill in surgical nursing.
She was the daughter of the Rev. Mark James Pattison (1788-1865), and the sister of the Rev. Mark Pattison (1813-1884), the scholar and historian.
Sister Dora worked tirelessly on behalf of the poor, treating thousands of patients during a smallpox epidemic. She was also embraced by the many railway workers whom she helped recover from accidents which frequently occurred at that time. She died from breast cancer, aged 46.
This book focuses on her medical career from 1867 to 1878.
