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Elizabeth Christophers Kimball Hobson
1831–1912
A pioneering American reformer, she helped shape modern nursing education and worked to improve life for working women. Her memoir, published after her death, offers a firsthand glimpse of nineteenth-century philanthropy, hospital reform, and social change.
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A Report Concerning the Colored Women of the South
by Elizabeth Christophers Kimball Hobson, Charlotte Everett Hopkins
About the author
Born Elizabeth Christophers Kimball in 1831, she became known for energetic work in social welfare and public health. She co-founded the Bellevue Training School for Nurses in New York, an influential early nursing school organized along principles associated with Florence Nightingale, and she also promoted first-aid instruction.
Her interests reached beyond hospitals. She supported projects aimed at improving conditions for working women and was involved in charitable and reform efforts during a period when women were creating new public roles through philanthropy and institution building.
She also wrote about her life and experiences. Her memoir, Recollections of a Happy Life, was published in 1916, and she is also listed as a co-author of A Report Concerning the Colored Women of the South (1896). She died in 1912.