Ann Evans: Colonial Nurse – School Journal Level 4 June 2022

Ann Evans was never a doctor, although that’s what she was often called. She grew up in England in the 1840s. Most people expected her to become a wife and mother. At the time, very few women had a career.

Keywords: biography, colonialism, Crimean War, feminism, Florence Nightingale, health, history, hospitals, Ngāti Ruanui, nursing, Pai Mārire, settlers, social change, society, Taranaki, Tītikowaru, Waihi Redoubt, wars, Whanganui, women