Grace Darling [SEP] medical condition
in the final stages of her illness she was conveyed to the place of her birth, in Bamburgh. Grace Darling died of tuberculosis in October 1842, aged 26.
Legacy.
Darling's achievement was celebrated in her lifetime: she received a large financial reward in addition to the plaudits of the nation. A number of fictionalised depictions propagated the Grace Darling legend, such as "Grace Darling, or the Maid of the Isles" by Jerrold Vernon (1839), which gave birth to the legend of “the
first woman member of the British Medical Association) and Agnes Jones the nurse praised by Florence Nightingale.
- In the right hand panel are depicted Grace Darling, Queen Victoria, Christina Rossetti and St Hilda together with the names St Frideswide, Mary Slessor (the Scottish missionary), Alice Marval (who died caring for plague victims in India), Amy Johnson, and Elsie Inglis, a suffragette who took women’s medical units to serve on the Western Front in the Great War.
Works Carlisle Cathedral.
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