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Saturday Mar 14, 2015
The Lepers and the London Nurse: The Remarkable Travels of Kate Marsden
Saturday Mar 14, 2015
Saturday Mar 14, 2015
(Lucy) Kate Marsden was born and died in London, but in the intervening decades, she traversed thousands of miles - and engaged the patronage of two empresses - in her efforts to ameliorate the lot of lepers, from London to the Russian steppes. Her exploits and her writings about them both inspired and scandalized society. This week's episode uses Marsden's career to discuss truth-telling, travel-writing, and Victorian ideas of virtue.
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