Jeanie, an 'Army of One'. Mrs Nassau Senior, 1828-1877, the First Woman in Whitehall, Paperback

A biography of Mrs Nassau Senior, 1822-1877, that tells how an extraordinary woman escaped from the constraints of Victorian domesticity to become the first woman in Whitehall and one of Britain's great social reformers. An ardent Christian Socialist radical, Jeanie Senior co-founded the British Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian war.