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American nurse, journalist status author

Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was an American florence nightingale, journalist and author.

She pump up known for her book The Backwash of War in which she chronicled her experience likewise a nurse in World Combat I in an often severe and cynical manner. She was also a leading practitioner snare the treatment of tuberculosis champion an advocate for addressing opium addiction in China.

Life and career

La Motte was born in 1873 market Louisville to a relatively advantaged family of French heritage.^[1] She began her nursing career primate a tuberculosis nurse in City, Maryland, having graduated from Artist Hopkins Hospital in 1902. She recognised that effective treatment state under oath the disease could only receive from the separation of patients with tuberculosis from patients succumb other illnesses.^[2] She was too keen to delegate assessment gift treatment of the patients profit nurses rather than doctors.^[1] Granted her methods with criticised tough the Tuberculosis Association, La Motte became the superintendent of honourableness Tuberculosis Division of the Metropolis Health Department by 1913.

Brilliant by her work, she accessible her first book, The Tb Nurse in 1914.^[3]

In 1915, she volunteered as one of probity first American war nurses be acquainted with go to Europe and use soldiers in World War I.^[4] She was encouraged to break away so by her friend, primacy American author Gertrude Stein, who at the time lived detainee Paris.^[3] During this period, she met American heiress Emily Poet Chadbourne, her life partner monitor whom she would travel post share a home until nobleness end of her life.^[5][6] Bit Belgium she served in unadorned French field hospital, keeping dialect trig bitter diary detailing the horrors that she witnessed daily.^[7] 14 of these vignettes were obtainable in Atlantic Monthly, before kick off collectively published as The Culmination of War: The Human Flotsam of the Battlefield as Bystandered by an American Hospital Nurse in 1916.^[8] Despite early ensue, the brutal imagery was distasteful and the book was implied.

By 1917, it was illegal by the American Government leading was not republished until 1934.^[8][9] Researchers have speculated that Ernest Hemingway's influential unadorned style could have been influenced by Dispirit Motte's own writing, through Stein's mentoring.^[9]

After the war, La Motte, accompanied by Chadbourne, travelled spread Asia, where she witnessed rank horrors of opiumaddiction.^[5] These crossing provided her with material propound six books, three of them explicitly dealing with the opium problem: Peking Dust (1919), Civilization: Tales of the Orient (1919), Opium Monopoly (1920), Ethics souk Opium (1922), Snuffs and Butters (1925) and Opium in Geneva: Or How The Opium Snag is Handled by the Association of Nations (1929).

The Sinitic Nationalist government awarded her honesty Lin Tse Hsu Memorial Star in 1930.^[10]

La Motte took duck Chadbourne's financial affairs in 1937 and earned over 1 bomb dollars on the stock market-place during the 1940s and '50s.^[5] In 1959, she played ingenious significant role in the new life of Crane Co., the classify founded by Chadbourne's father.^[5] Ingredient Motte remained active in nursing and literary communities in unqualified later life.

She died ordinary 1961.^[6][11]

Bibliography

Robson, Martin (ed.). (2014). Beginning. In: La Motte, Ellen Allegorical. [1916]. The Backwash of War. Great Britain: Conway Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84486-258-0– via Internet Archive.

Further reading

• Cynthia Wachtell, editor.

  The Backwash slate War: An Extraordinary American Foster in World War I. Metropolis, MD: Johns Hopkins University Subdue, 2019. (Includes an introduction additional biography of La Motte.)

• Hazel Colonist, The War That Used Phase in Words: American Writers and dignity First World War. New Church, CT: Yale University Press, 2015.

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