E. C. (Eleanor Constance) Laurence

E. C. Laurence, short for Eleanor Constance Laurence, is known for A Nurse's Life in War and Peace, a memoir published in 1912 with a preface by Sir Frederick Treves.

The book draws on her experiences as a nurse and follows her work in training, hospital life, and wartime service, including the South African War. What stands out is the direct, unadorned way she writes about the demands of nursing, making the book useful both as a personal story and as a record of medical work in the early 20th century.

Reliable biographical details about her life beyond the memoir are limited in the sources I could confirm, so much of her reputation rests on this surviving work and the glimpse it gives into the profession she practiced.