“Redheads have moved history out of proportion to their numbers.”
Thursday, 16 August 2018
564) Jessie White Mario
Jessie White Mario (1832 – 1906). English (and naturalized Italian)
writer and philanthropist. She is sometimes referred to as "Hurricane
Jessie" in the Italian press.
She was a nurse to General Giuseppe Garibaldi's soldiers in four wars; she researched living conditions in
subterranean Naples and working conditions in Sicily’s sulphur mines.
She wrote copiously (in English and Italian) as both a journalist and a
biographer. Litta Visconti Arese in his introduction to The Birth of
Modern Italy, says Jessie was the first woman journalist in England.
Her most famous biography was about Giuseppe Garibaldi.
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