Flynn's Outback Angels - Volume 1. Casting the Mantle, by Ivan Rudolph
Volume 1 covers 1901 to World War II. This is a book about John Flynn's AIM "angels" of the Australian Outback in the early twentieth century and the vital roles they played in fulfilling his dreams for a "mantle of safety" over the isolation of the bush.
There are sensitive and moving accounts of Jeannie Gunn of Elsey Station in 1901 and her subsequent work in Melbourne; Jessie Litchfield at West Arm; Jean Finlayson and Ida Standley in Alice Springs during World War 1; Minnie Kinnear as a Border Nurse at Innamincka; Grace Francis pioneering a cottage hospital in the isolation of Birdsville; heroic nursing from two Territorian nurses, Ruth Heathcock and Elsie Jones; the world's first woman Flying Doctor, Jean White, the "Angel of the North", and many other dedicated women.