The Mystery of Isabella and the String of Beads by Katrina Kirkwood

The Mystery of Isabella and the String of Beads by Katrina Kirkwood

It was the inscription that made the antique scalpels so tantalising: 'Isabella Stenhouse'. A woman doctor? A woman doctor who was rumoured to have served in the First World War? Could Isabella have treated wounded men with these very implements? And had a grateful German prisoner of war really given her the strange string of beads that tangled round her stethoscope?

Coaxing clues from archives across Europe, Katrina Kirkwood traces Isabella's route from medical school to the Western Front, Malta and Egypt, discovering as she travels that Dr Stenhouse was not only one of the first women doctors who worked with the British Army - she was also a woman carrying a tragic secret, torn between ambition and loyalty to her family.

Isabella's story was selected for the BC Antiques Roadshow's W1 centenary edition, and featured by national, international and local media.

'The quiet heroics of a woman on a W1 battlefield' Daily Express

Katrina, Kirkwood: - Katrina Kirkwood, a former medical research scientist with a passion for stories, is Doctor Isabella Stenhouse's granddaughter. Equipped with two science degrees and an art degree, she spent many years helping people in the South Wales valleys turn their stories into mini-films before embarking on her quest to solve the mystery of Isabella and her beads. Following features about Isabella on the BBC Antiques Roadshow, in national newspapers, and on local radio and television, Katrina has been invited to write about Isabella for the magazine of the Medical Women's Federation and for Beyond the Trenches, the blog of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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ISBN 13	9780995489301
ISBN 10	0995489300
Title	The Mystery of Isabella and the String of Beads
Author	Katrina Kirkwood
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Loke Press
Year published	2016-07-25
Number of pages	400
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