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Wakeford, Constance. The Wounded Soldiers' Friends: The Story of Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton and Others. Illustrations by George Soper and Joan Rowntree. London: Headley, 1917.

Close to a dual biography: seven chapters each on Nightingale and Barton, a small chapter on Mabel Dearmer. The large-type prose style, the dedication "Dedicated to My Little Chum Phyllis," the varied illustrations (some three-tone or color, some black line drawings) all suggest a juvenile target audience. The Afterword suggests as much, in context of World War I, honoring English and American "torch-bearers in the name of humanity" (151); "Boys and girls, you are the torch-bearers of the future!...When the black war-clouds have rolled away, to you will come the difficult task of helping to build a 'New Jerusalem/In England's green and pleasant land.....Boys and girls, even now the torch is being passed to you. Seize it and carry on!" (152).

TOC: Florence Nightingale: I Happy Days of Childhood; II The Squire's Daughter; III Called to Service; IV The Lady of the Lamp; V At the Front; VI The Return of the Heroine; VII The Last Farewell; Clara Barton: I Early Years; II Clara Becomes a Teacher; III Love Is Stronger than Fear; IV The Angel of the Battlefield; V The Call Comes a Second Time; VI Christmas at Strassburg; VII Home Again; The Story of the Red Cross; The Story of the Red Cross (con.); The Story of Serbia; Mabel Dearmer; Afterword.

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