Genre: Family & Relationships
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Half a Century by Jane Grey SWISSHELM (1815 - 1884) Genre(s): War & Military, Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships Read by: Pamela Nagami in English Parts: Part 1 https://youtu.be/9upZW-DtTa4 Chapters: 00:00:00 - 52 - Ch. 52: Find Work 00:12:25 - 53 - Ch. 53: Hospital Gangrene 00:15:51 - 54 - Ch. 54: Get Permission to Work 00:18:36 - 55 - Ch. 55: Find a Name 00:27:49 - 56 - Ch. 56: Drop My Alias 00:32:20 - 57 - Ch. 57: Hospital Dress 00:36:15 - 58 - Ch. 58: Special Work 00:41:45 - 59 - Ch. 59: Heroic and Anti-Heroic Treatment 00:50:13 - 60 - Ch. 60: Cost of Order 00:58:19 - 61 - Ch. 61: Learn to Control Pyaemia 01:01:49 - 62 - Ch. 62: First Case of Growing a New Bone 01:12:02 - 63 - Ch. 63: A Heroic Mother 01:15:23 - 64 - Ch. 64: Two Kinds of Appreciation 01:25:36 - 65 - Ch. 65: Life and Death 01:33:02 - 66 - Ch. 66: Meet Miss Dix and Go to Fredericksburg 01:43:17 - 67 - Ch. 67: The Old Theater 01:54:39 - 68 - Ch. 68: Am Placed in Authority 02:00:36 - 69 - Ch. 69: Visitors 02:08:35 - 70 - Ch. 70: Wounded Officers 02:14:04 - 71 - Ch. 71: ‘Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep' 02:19:59 - 72 - Ch. 72: More Victims and a Change of Base 02:30:34 - 73 - Ch. 73: Prayers Enough and to Spare 02:34:32 - 74 - Ch. 74: Get Out of the Old Theater 02:39:46 - 75 - Ch. 75: Take Boat and See a Social Party 02:45:51 - 76 - Ch. 76: Take Final Leave of Fredericksburg 03:02:00 - 77 - Ch. 77: Try to Get Up a Society and Get Sick 03:07:41 - 78 - Ch. 78: An Efficient Nurse 03:09:57 - 79 - Ch. 79: Two Fredericksburg Patients 03:11:45 - 80 - Ch. 80: Am Enlightened 03:14:43 - 81 - Conclusion In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of that year, the outspoken abolitionist, feminist, and journalist, Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) unleashed a congressional sex scandal. Frustrated by what she saw as the Massachusetts senator's surrender to the Southern Slave Power, she published an article alleging Webster's marital infidelities with women of color. As a result of the media storm that followed, Swisshelm lost her job at the New York Tribune. This is but one of the many episodes found in her 1880 autobiography, 'Half a Century,' which is a narrative of the frontier, of the fight against slavery, and of Swisshelm's fearless, compassionate, and innovative work as a surgical nurse treating Union soldiers who had suffered the most terrible wounds of war. (Pamela Nagami, M.D.) More information: https://librivox.org/half-a-century-by-jane-grey-swisshelm/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)