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Eva Shaw McLaren
A writer closely connected to the story she told, she is best known for preserving the life and work of Dr. Elsie Inglis and for helping record the remarkable achievements of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals during the First World War.
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Elsie Inglis: The Woman with the Torch
by Eva Shaw McLaren
About the author
Eva Shaw McLaren was a British writer remembered chiefly for two books: Elsie Inglis: The Woman with the Torch and A History of the Scottish Women's Hospitals (1919), which she edited. Her work helped preserve the history of a major women-led medical effort in wartime and introduced later readers to the life of one of its most inspiring figures.
She is especially associated with Elsie Inglis, the Scottish doctor and suffrage campaigner who founded the Scottish Women's Hospitals. Because of that close connection, McLaren's writing has lasting value not just as biography, but also as a near-contemporary account of women’s service, organization, and courage during the war.
Reliable biographical details about McLaren herself are surprisingly scarce in the sources available here, so it is safest to remember her above all as an editor and biographer whose books helped keep this important chapter of women's history alive.