Introductory Bibliography

Holly A. Mayer, Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community during the American Revolution (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996)

Rebecca J. Tannenbaum, The Healer’s Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England (Cornell University Press, 2019)

Kathleen M. Brown, Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014)

Lauren Duval, The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025).

Susan H. Brandt, Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022).

Meg E. Roberts, ‘Caregiving, Crisis and Coercion in the American Revolutionary War’, PhD dissertation. University of Cambridge; 2024.

Meg E. Roberts & Jessica Martucci, (2026). The Nursing the Revolution Exhibit. AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 126(7), 50–56. https://doi.org/10.1097/AJN.0000000000000340.

Mary Gillet, The Army Medical Department, 1775-1818 (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, U.S. Army : 1990). https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002229180.

Laurel Daen, ‘“To Board & Nurse a Stranger”: Poverty, Disability, and Community in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts’, Journal of Social History 53, no. 3 (2020): 716–41. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shy117.

Ann M. Becker, Smallpox in Washington’s Army: Disease, War, and Society During the American Revolutionary War (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).

Susan Brandt, ‘“Getting into a Little Business”: Margaret Hill Morris and Women’s Medical Entrepreneurship during the American Revolution’, Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 13, no. 4 (2015): 774–807. https://doi.org/10.1353/eam.2015.0034.

Elizabeth A. Fenn, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (Hill and Wang: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002).

Ben Mutschler, The Province of Affliction: Illness and the Making of Early New England (University of Chicago Press, 2020).

Monica Baly, Florence Nightingale and the Nursing Legacy (London: Croom Helm, 1986)

Erin Spinney, ‘Naval and Military Nursing in the British Empire C. 1763-1830’, PhD thesis (University of Saskatchewan, 2018)

Anne Summers, ‘The Mysterious Demise of Sarah Gamp: The Domiciliary Nurse and Her Detractors, c. 1830-1860’, Victorian Studies 32, no. 3 (1989): 365–86.

Jacques Carré, ‘Hospital Nurses in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Service without Responsibility’, in The Invisible Woman: Aspects of Women's Work in Eighteenth-Century Britain, eds Isabelle Baudino, Jacques Carré, Cécile Révauger (Routledge, 2005), pp. 89-101.

Jeremy Boulton, ‘Welfare Systems and the Parish Nurse in Early Modern London, 1650–1725’, Family & Community History 10, no. 2 (2007), pp. 127–51.