Lynn McDonald is university professor emerita at the University of Guelph and the director of the 16-volume Collected Works of Florence Nightingale (2001-12). She did her BA at the University of British Columbia and her PhD at the London School of Economics. While a member of Canada’s Parliament, she sponsored the Non-smokers’ Health Act (1998), which pioneered smoke-free work and public spaces. She earlier served as president of the National Action committee on the Status of Women, Canada’s largest women’s organization at that time.
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Books
Mary Seacole
Mary Seacole: The Making of the Myth is the first book to challenge the popular misconceptions that surround Mary Seacole’s iconic status as a “pioneer nurse” and battlefield heroine, intended, by some, to replace Florence Nightingale in those roles.