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• Florence Nightingale, the Wounded Soldier's Friend, by Eliza F. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memoirs of a Professional Lady Nurse (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1873), by M. Stannard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (London: James Blackwood, 1857), by Mary Seacole (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Florence Nightingale: War Nurse (published as by "Anne Colver"; Champaign, IL: Garrard Press, c1961), by Polly Anne Graff, illust. by Gerald McCann (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Diary Without Dates (London: W. Heinemann, 1918), by Enid Bagnold (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, a Balaclava Nurse, Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladyr (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1857), by Elizabeth Davis, ed. by Jane Williams
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

• In Times of Peril: Leaves From the Diary of Nurse Linda Kearns from Easter Week, 1916, to Mountjoy, 1921 (Dublin: The Talbot Press Ltd.; London: T. F. Unwin Ltd., 1922), by Linda Kearns, ed. by Annie M. P. Smithson (page images at Villanova)

• Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2022), by Frances Susan Hasso (PDF and HTML with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Our Army Nurses: Interesting Sketches, Addresses, and Photographs of Nearly One Hundred of the Noble Women Who Served in Hospitals and on Battlefields During Our Civil War (Boston: B. Wilkins and Co., 1895), ed. by Mary Gardner Holland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front, During the War of the Rebellion (Hartford: A.D. Worthington and Co., 1896), by Mary A. Livermore (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Ward Management and Teaching (first edition; New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, c1949), by Jean Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hygiene of the Sick-Room: A Book for Nurses and Others (Philadelphia, P. Blakiston, Son and Co., 1892), by William Buckingham Canfield
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Occupation Therapy: A Manual for Nurses (Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Co., 1915), by William Rush Dunton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Bacteriology and Surgical Technique for Nurses (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1900), by Emily M. A. Stoney (page images at HathiTrust)

• What Is the Use of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada? (Ottawa: Mortimer, 1900), by Countess of Aberdeen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Canadian Nurse (partial serial archives)

• Jean I. Gunn: Nursing Leader (Markham, ON: Associated Medical Services and Fitzhenry and Whiteside, c1997), by Natalie Riegler (PDF with commentary in Canada)

• Jean I. Gunn: Nursing Leader (Markham, ON: Associated Medical Services and Fitzhenry and Whiteside, c1997), by Natalie Riegler (PDF with commentary in Canada)

• The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner: A Transformational Journey (Edmonton: AU Press, c2013), by Judy Rashotte (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner: A Transformational Journey (Edmonton: AU Press, c2013), by Judy Rashotte (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner: A Transformational Journey (Edmonton: AU Press, c2013), by Judy Rashotte (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Third International Congress of Nurses: Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, September 18, 19, 20, 21, 1901 (Cleveland: Press of J.B. Savage, 1901), by International Congress of Nurses, ed. by Isabel Hampton Robb, Lavinia L. Dock, and Maud Banfield (page images at HathiTrust)

• The White Linen Nurse, by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (Gutenberg text)
• The Patient in Room 18, by Mignon G. Eberhart (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Marcella, by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • Volume I: HTML at Indiana
  • Volume II: HTML at Indiana
  • Gutenberg text

• The Edith Cavell Nurse from Massachusetts: A Record of One Year's Personal Service with the British Expeditionary Force in France, Boulogne-The Somme, 1916-1917; With an Account of the Imprisonment, Trial, and Death of Edith Cavell (Boston: W. A. Butterfield, c1917), by Alice Louise Florence Fitzgerald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, a Balaclava Nurse, Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladyr (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1857), by Elizabeth Davis, ed. by Jane Williams
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

• Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross (written under "Edith Van Dyne" pseudonym), by L. Frank Baum (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• "Sister": A Chronicle of Fair Haven (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898), by Evelyn Everett-Green (page images at Florida)

• A British Nurse in Bolshevik Russia (London: A. C. Fifield, 1920), by Margaret H. Barber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes: Is It Adequate? (1996), ed. by Gooloo S. Wunderlich, Frank A. Sloan, and Carolyne K. Davis (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes: Is It Adequate? (1996), ed. by Gooloo S. Wunderlich, Frank A. Sloan, and Carolyne K. Davis (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Certified Nurse-Midwives: A Policy Analysis (OTA-HCS-37; 1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front, During the War of the Rebellion (Hartford: A.D. Worthington and Co., 1896), by Mary A. Livermore (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Story of My Life: or, The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years (Hartford: A.D. Worthington and Co., 1897), by Mary A. Livermore (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Deaconesses: Biblical, Early Church, European, American; With the Story of the Chicago Training School, for City, Home and Foreign Missions, and the Chicago Deaconess Home (second edition; Chicago: Message Pub. Co., c1889), by Lucy Rider Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches (London and New York: Macmillan, 1889), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (Milwaukee: South Side Printing Co., 1897), by Louis Hughes
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
• Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (Milwaukee: South Side Printing Co., 1897), by Louis Hughes (Gutenberg text and Librivox Audio)

• A Nickel and a Prayer (Cleveland: Elli Kani Pub. Co., c1940), by Jane Edna Hunter, contrib. by George Albert Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust)

• On Sledge and Horseback to the Outcast Siberian Lepers: Illustrated From Photographs and Drawings (New York: Cassell Pub. Co., c1892), by Kate Marsden
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at Google

• Florence Nightingale, the Angel of the Crimea: A Story for Young People (New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1913), by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Florence Nightingale As Seen in Her Portraits: With a Sketch of Her Life, and an Account of Her Relations to the Origin of the Red Cross Society (ca.1916), by Maude E. Abbott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Florence Nightingale, the Wounded Soldier's Friend, by Eliza F. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches (London and New York: Macmillan, 1889), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text

• Victorian Women Writers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Gail Turley Houston (PDF at Ohio State)

• Florence Nightingale: War Nurse (published as by "Anne Colver"; Champaign, IL: Garrard Press, c1961), by Polly Anne Graff, illust. by Gerald McCann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (London: James Blackwood, 1857), by Mary Seacole (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Memoirs of a Professional Lady Nurse (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1873), by M. Stannard (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.