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Eva Shaw McLaren

Best remembered for writing a lively biography of pioneering doctor Elsie Inglis, this early 20th-century writer helped preserve the story of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals and the women behind them.

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Elsie Inglis: The Woman with the Torch

Elsie Inglis: The Woman with the Torch

by Eva Shaw McLaren

About the author

Eva Shaw McLaren is credited as the author of Elsie Inglis, a book about the Scottish doctor, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals. Her work appeared in the early 20th century and is still circulated today through reprints and digital archives.

Although detailed biographical information about her is hard to confirm from readily available reliable sources, her surviving work suggests a strong interest in women’s public service, reform, and wartime achievement. Through her writing on Elsie Inglis, she helped keep an important chapter of women’s history in view for later readers.