"Mrs. Tilley Had a Very Hasty Wedding!": The Class-Based Response to Marriages in the Grenfell Mission of Newfoundland and Labrador

• Main Author: Coombs-Thorne, Heidi
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Marriage; Nurses; Physicians; History of Health Ethics / Bioethics; Sociology of Health Care; Philosophy of Nursing; Newfoundland; Tilley
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1025688; http://worldcatlibraries.org/registry/gateway?version=1.0&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&atitle="Mrs.+Tilley+had+a+very+hasty+wedding!":+the+class-based+response+to+marriages+in+the+Grenfell+Mission+of+Newfoundland+and+Labrador.&title=Canadian+bulletin+of+medical+history+=+Bulletin+canadien+d'histoire+de+la+médecine+&volume=27&issue=1&date=2010&au=Coombs-Thorne,+Heidi

The International Grenfell Association (IGA) attracted hundreds of single young women for nursing in northern Newfoundland and Labrador between 1939 and 1981. Under contract with the Mission, the Grenfell nurse was expected to behave in a non-sexual manner and uphold a strict moral code of behaviour...