Title: Anastasia, Florence Nightingale and I
Description: A true and sweet coming-of-age account of an idealistic young Russian woman who finds herself in Shanghai, and trains at the Harvard Medical School of China with a noted surgeon in a little-known episode of Harvard Medical School's history--written in the style of an autobiography of Nicia Brooks by her daughter.
Subjects: Fiction, Childhood and youth, Nurses, History
Places: China, Russia
People: Nicia Brooks
Time periods: Nicholas II, 1894-1917