Divided Sisterhood

''... a complex history told with consummate clarity, compassion and poignancy''- A.M.Rafferty, Department of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, Queen''s Medical Centre, Nottingham This book explores the establishment of nursing as a profession for white, English-speaking ''ladies'' in the last third of the nineteenth century, the class and racial tensions that developed as first Afrikaner and then Af...