Melissa Hardie

Born in Houston, Texas, MH received her AB at Boston University in 1961 (English Lang & Lit), and after emigrating to the UK, became a State Registered Nurse, after studies at St Thomas's Hospital, London (Nightingale Training School). She gained her PhD in Social Sciences at Edinburgh University in 1980. After 4 years running her own book business and establishing the Patten Press, she moved to West Cornwall where she established the Jamieson Library of Women's History, from which the …