No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War

All children learn at school the story of Florence Nightingale - the Ladyith the Lamp - who heroically tended the sick during the Crimean War. Buthe was not the only woman in the Crimea. It is usually assumed that womenid not become involved in international conflict until the First World War.ut in "No Place For Ladies", respected historian Helen Rappaport provestherwise: numerous women were actively involved in the Crimean war in aariety of ways. Four wives would be chosen to accompany each regiment of 100en, enduring the verminridden troop ships and then left to fend forhemselves in the barren Crimean terrain, before combing the battlefields inearch of their men. Yet the suffering of the soldiers' wives left behind wasore terrible. At home, vast numbers of women - including Queen Victoriaerself - knitted socks to cheer the soldiers stranded in freezing Sevastopol.lorence Nightingale had a band of unruly, often hard-drinking orderlies toontrol. Rejected by Nightingale, maverick black nurse Mary Seacole set uper own dispensary in the Crimea.;And then there were the lady battlefieldHelen Rappaport is the author of 'No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War' with ISBN 9781845132200 and ISBN 1845132203.