Surname: Pearson Forename(s): Emma Maria b. 1828. d. 3 June 1893. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, novelist, memoirist, and nurse. Pseudonym: “Emma.” Unmarried. Born in Greater
Yarmouth, Norfolk. Trained as a nurse with the Red Cross. Nursed during the Franco-Prussian
War and the Serbo-Turkish War. Author of several memoirs about her time as a nurse
abroad including Our Adventures During the War of 1870 (1871) and Service in Servia Under the Red Cross (1877). Worked as a superintendent at a London hospital later in life. Biographical
information: Curran Index, At the Circulating Library. (AC, CC)