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Osburn, Lucy (1836 - 1891)

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The following entries are from the History of Australian Science and Technology Bibliography.

Books

  • Bashford, Alison, Purity and pollution: gender, embodiment and Victorian medicine, Macmillan, London, 1998. [ Details ]

  • Bowd, D. G., Lucy Osburn c. 1836-1891; founder of the Nightingale system of nursing at Sydney Hospital, Hawkesbury Press, Windsor, New South Wales, 1968. [ Details ]

  • Brodsky, Isadore, Sydney's nurse crusaders, Old Sydney Free Press, Sydney, 1968. [ Details ]

  • Godden, Judith, Lucy Osburn, a lady displaced. Florence Nightingale's envoy to Australia, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2006. [ Details ]

  • MacDonnell, Freda, Miss Nightingale's young ladies; the story of Lucy Osburn and Sydney Hospital, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1970. [ Details ]

  • Nelson, Sioban, Say Little, Do Much: Nurses, Nuns and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2001, 237 pp. [ Details ]

  • Watson, J. Frederick, The History of the Sydney Hospital from 1811 to 1911, Government Printer, Sydney, 1911. [ Details ]

Book Chapters

Catalogues

  • Wrobel, Elinor, Catalogue for the Exhibition and Launch of the Lucy Osburn-Nightingale Foundation, 11-12 May 2001, Catalogue, Sydney Hospital, 2001. [ Details ]

Journal Articles

  • Godden, Judith, ''Like a possession of the devil': the diffusion of Nightingale nursing and Anglo-Australian relations', International History of Nursing Journal, vol. 7, 2001, pp. 52-58. [ Details ]

  • Godden, Judith, 'A ‘lamentable failure’? The founding of Nightingale nursing in Australia, 1868-84', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 32, no. 117, 2001, pp. 276-91. [ Details ]

  • Godden, Judith, ''Be good sweet maid': Sister Probationer Nora Barton at the Sydney Infirmary, 1869-72', Labour History, vol. 80, 2001, pp. 141-56. [ Details ]

  • Godden, Judith, 'Matching the Ideal? The First Generation of Nightingale Nursing Probationers, Sydney Hospital, 1868-84', Health and History, vol. 5, no. 1, 2003, pp. 22-41. [ Details ]

  • Godden, Judith and Forsyth, Sue, 'Defining relationships and limiting power: Two leaders of Australian nursing, 1868-1904', Nursing Inquiry, vol. 7, no. 1, 2000, pp. 10-19. [ Details ]

  • Godden, Judith and Helmstadter, Carol, 'Women's Mission and Professional Knowledge: Nightingale nursing in colonial Australia and Canada', Social History of Medicine, vol. 17, no. 2, August, pp. 157-74. [ Details ]

  • Pitt, Rosemary, 'The Nightingale Nurses in Colonial New South Wales', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 78, no. 3-4, 1992, pp. 19-38. [ Details ]

  • Susman, M. P., 'Lucy Osburn and her five Nightingale nurses', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 1, no. 633, May 1965. [ Details ]

Reports

  • Report of Sub-Committee into allegations of the Protestant Standard, New South Wales Legislative Assembly Votes and Proceedings, vol. 4, New South Wales, 1870-71. [ Details ]

  • Royal Commission into Public Charities, First Report, New South Wales Legislative Assembly Votes and Proceedings, vol. 6, New South Wales, 1873-74. [ Details ]

 

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