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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Farmborough, Florence ___ 1887-1978 ___ British ___ nurse BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Florence Farmborough was born in Buckinghamshire, the fourth child of a family of six, and named after Florence Nightingale, a friend of the family. In 1908, she went to Kiev as a child's companion and teacher. And then, two years later, she moved to Moscow to take another position as English tutor to the two young daughters of a heart surgeon. During the First World War, she trained as a nurse at a hospital established by Princess Golitsin in Moscow. Later she went with a Flying Column of Russian troops to Poland, Romania and Austria. She was awarded two Russian medals for valour on the field of battle. Her diary of this period, often written on scraps of paper and not published until the 1970s, has become a source book for those studying the Great War, the realities of war, and women's roles in war. Later, Farmborough is said to have become a left-wing activist, and to have been involved in the Spanish Civil War, although there is very little information about her on the internet. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1914-1918 ___ military social health WEB TEXT LINKS two or three issues carry a long article one extract ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS Imperial War Museum SOME PUBLISHED TITLES Nurse at the Russian Front May 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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