Reminiscences Of A Southern Hospital, By Its Matron (Unabridged)

di Phoebe Yates Pember (Autore)

Vincent Bradley (Narratore)

Slingshot Books LLC, 2022

Phoebe Yates Pember served as a matron in the Confederate Chimborazo military hospital in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, overseeing a dietary kitchen serving meals to 300 or more wounded soldiers daily. Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital is her vivid recounting of hospital life and of her tribulations as a female administrator. To follow her from day one, when she is greeted with “ill-repressed disgust” that “one of them had come,” and she, herself, “could only understand that the position was one which dove-tailed the offices of housekeeper and cook” to the day when she as exerts control over the hospital’s “medicinal whiskey barrel” is to watch a woman find herself. Besides describing “daily scenes of pathos,” Pember gives a horrifying account of the prisoner exchange of November 1864 , and also of the evacuation and burning of Richmond in 1865. Her memoirs were serialized in Cosmopolite magazine in 1866, then reprinted in book form in 1879 under the title A Southern Woman’s Story. Pember was honored by the US Postal Service with a stamp in 1995.

• Autore: Phoebe Yates Pember
• Narratore: Vincent Bradley
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 04:16:56
• Anno edizione: 2022
• Editore: Slingshot Books LLC
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9798822599970