Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Foreword

Abbreviations
Endnotes
Index

About the Author

Judith Godden is an honorary associate of the Department of History at the University of Sydney.

Reviews

'Godden's portrait of Lucy Osburn is both informative and entertaining, and it would have a wide appeal to many audiences. This is a well‐written and engaging book. To a researcher interested in the development of women's careers, it offers a poignant lesson in the difficulties faced by women who stepped outside the traditional roles of wife and mother in the Victorian age.'
*Journal of Religious Studies*

'Godden sets Lucy Osburn’s time in Australia firmly in its social and political context. Many of Osburn’s letters to Florence Nightingale have survived, and Godden was able to examine in some detail the tense relationships between Nightingale in England, Osburn in Sydney and the various members of Sydney’s political and medical elites.'
*Australian Journal of Politics and History*

'Godden has made extensive use of an exceptional array of primary sources, and the research is meticulous throughout ... Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced is a particularly arresting addition to medical and nursing history, biography and colonial women’s history. Better still, it will be read with pleasure, as well as much gain.'
*History Australia*

'Godden's book is a rich‐textured read and a major contribution to the literature in a number of fields: Victorian studies, gender studies, colonial history and the history of medicine and nursing. While it is an important Australian story, Australia only provides the setting. So much of the story is that of a lady, displaced within the empire, restless and capable, but at the mercy of the elements. Godden's sympathetic and rigorous treatment of the subject will stand.'
*Nursing Inquiry*