Elsie Inglis: The Woman with the Torch

by Eva Shaw McLaren

"THE NEW WORK" AND MEMORIES

Landed at Newcastle on November 23, 1917—Illness on voyage—Dr. Ethel Williams's testimony to her fearlessness in facing death—Triumph in passing—Scenes at funeral in Edinburgh—Memories

• [Bibliography]

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

• [DR. ELSIE INGLIS IN 1916, AFTER HER RETURN FROM SERBIA]
• [THE THREE MISS FENDALLS]
  • From a picture in the possession of Brigadier-General C. Fendall
• [ELSIE INGLIS AT THE AGE OF TWO YEARS]
• [JOHN FORBES DAVID INGLIS, ELSIE INGLIS'S FATHER]
• [THE HOSPICE, HIGH STREET, EDINBURGH]
• [ELSIE INGLIS, BY IVAN MESTROVICH]
  • In the Scottish National Gallery
• [ELSIE INGLIS IN AUGUST, 1916, BEFORE LEAVING FOR RUSSIA]
• [THE HIGH STREET, LOOKING TOWARDS ST. GILES'S]

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PREFACE

"To light a path for men to come" is the privilege of the pioneer; and the life of a pioneer, the hewer of a new path, is always encouraging, whether he who goes before to open the way be a voyager to the Poles or the uttermost parts of the earth, in imminent danger of physical death, or whether he be an adventurer, cutting a path to a new race consciousness, revealing the power of service in new vocations, evoking new powers, and living in hourly danger of mental suffocation by prejudices and inhibitions of race tradition.