Sister Dora

Biographies (20 Total)

• Dorothy Pattison Author: Robert Cochrane . Collection Title: Lives of Good and Great Women. n.d.
• Sister Dora Author: Jennie Chappell . Collection Title: Four Noble Women and Their Work. 1898
• Sister Dora Author: A. J. Green Armytage . Collection Title: Maids of Honour: Twelve Descriptive Sketches of Single Women Who Have Distinguished Themselves in Philanthropy, Nursing, Poetry, Travel, Science, Prose. With Portraits. 1906
• Sister Dora Author: Sabine Baring-Gould . Collection Title: Virgin Saints and Martyrs. 1900
• Sister Dora Author: Rosa Nouchette Carey . Collection Title: Twelve Notable Good Women of the XIXth Century, with Twelve Portraits. 1899
• Sister Dora Author: Jennie Chappell . Collection Title: Noble Workers: Sketches of the Life-Work of Frances Willard, Agnes Weston, Sister Dora, Catherine Booth, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Lady Henry Somerset, Sarah Robinson, Mrs. Fawcett, and Mrs. Gladstone. 1910
• Sister Dora Author: Miss Jeanie Douglas Cochrane . Collection Title: Peerless Women: A Book for Girls. 1905
• Sister Dora Author: Louise Creighton . Collection Title: Some Famous Women. 1909
• Sister Dora Author: John Maw Darton . Collection Title: The Heroism of Christian Women of Our Own Time, what they have done & are doing, embracing their early training and inner life. 1880
• Sister Dora Author: . Collection Title: True and Noble Women. 1888
• Sister Dora Author: Millicent Garrett Fawcett . Collection Title: Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches. 1889
• Sister Dora Author: . Collection Title: Heroines of Modern Religion. 1913
• Sister Dora Author: . Collection Title: Heroines That Every Child Should Know: Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages. 1907
• Sister Dora Author: Myrtle Reed . Collection Title: Happy Women. 1913
• Sister Dora Author: George Barnett Smith . Collection Title: Noble Womanhood: A Series of Biographical Sketches. 1894
• Sister Dora Author: Rose Somerville . Collection Title: Brief Epitomes of the Lives of Eminent Women. 1886
• Sister Dora Author: Daniel Wise . Collection Title: Some Remarkable Women: A Book for Young Ladies. 1887
• Sister Dora Author: Ethel Mary Wilmot-Buxton . Collection Title: A Book of Noble Women. 1907
• "Sister Dora" among the Sick and the Suffering Author: Joseph Johnson . Collection Title: Noble Women of Our Time. 1882
• Sister Dora of Walsall Author: Richard Symonds . Collection Title: Far Above Rubies: The Women Uncommemorated by the Church of England. 1993

Events

Key

• Birth of Sister Dora
• Death of Sister Dora's Mother
• Becoming a Schoolteacher
• Joining sisterhood, 1864
• Becoming nurse at Walsall, January 1865
• Smallpox epidemic and quarantine hospital, 1875
• Ironwork disaster, 15 October 1875
• Fatal illness diagnosed, 1877
• Death (and deathbed) at Walsall, 1878
• Funeral

Common

• Conflict with sisterhood regarding father's death
• The Boy Who Threw the Rock
• The Man Who Died in the Dark
• Sister's Arm
• Little Girl with Flowers in Heaven
• Trip to Paris
• Opening of Hospital in Her Name
• Statue Dedicated to Sister Dora
• Disciplinary Training with Sisterhood
• Illness on Arrival at Walsall

Rare

• The Ruined Bonnets
• Dying Village Boy Waiting for Dora's Return
• Defiance of Family to Nurse Old Dying Woman
• Her Sister's Illness
• Housecleaning and Teaching at Woolston
• Burglary in her Cottage at Woolston
• Illness, Recovery on Holiday at Redcar
• Woman Patient (Private) Gives Jewels, Threatens