Cecil Blanche Woodham-Smith (née Fitzgerald) was a British historian and biographer. She wrote four popular history books, each dealing with a different aspect of the Victorian era.
Books in order of publication:
Florence Nightingale – 1951
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade – 1953
The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 – 1849 – 1962
Queen Victoria, From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort – 1972
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