E. C. (Eleanor Constance) Laurence

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

Her book is a personal account of training and working as a nurse, moving between civilian hospitals and wartime service in South Africa during the Boer War. Readers still come to it for its direct, unsentimental picture of nursing life and the practical realities behind the profession.

Confirmed biographical details about Laurence herself are limited in the sources available here, so it is safest to remember her primarily through this memoir and the vivid professional experience it preserves.