Letters to the Editor

What's in a Name? The revealing use of noms de plume in women's correspondence to daily newspapers in Edwardian Scotland

“…No well-trained and loyal nurse would criticise the medical men in a letter to a public paper. 23 Despite this rebuke, 'Jubilee Nurse' wrote another letter criticising both the scheme and Miss Wade's understanding of the role of the nurse, claiming that all nurses criticised doctors the minute their backs were turned. In response to this, the Honorary Secretary of the Aberdeen District Nursing Association, Katharine Lumsden, wrote on 7 December:…”