Jane Evans - Based on the True Story of a Welsh Woman's Journey from Drover to the Crimea

Purkis, Christine.

Jane Evans - Based on the True Story of a Welsh Woman's Journey from Drover to the Crimea - Havertown : Y Lolfa, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (186 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Set in 1850s Wales, London and the Crimea, Jane Evans is a novel about the real first woman on the drove, who also nursed under Florence Nightingale. Fleeing her harsh life in rural Wales, Jane ends up nursing wounded soldiers in inhuman conditions in the Crimea. Can she survive the dangers and return to Wales - and what will await her ...



9781784617219


Crimean War, 1853-1856--Fiction.


Electronic Books.

PR6116 / .J364 2019