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The title of matron was first used in the 16th century in the United Kingdom (UK) for the housekeeper role in voluntary hospitals. [9] The radical reforms of nursing promoted by Florence Nightingale argued not just that nurses should be trained but that the hospital nursing staff and their training should come under the control of one senior nurse – the matron.
Matron literature (also known as hen lit) is a literary genre which focuses on older female characters as protagonists. The genre has increased in popularity as the baby boomers have aged and female readers have sought characters to identify with. [ 1 ]
Matres and Matronae appear depicted on both stones with inscriptions and without, both as altars and votives. All depictions are frontal; they appear almost exclusively in threes with at least one figure holding a basket of fruit in her lap and the women are either standing or sitting.
Matron, a native of Pitane in Aeolis, was a celebrated writer of parodies upon Homer, often quoted by Eustathius and Athenaeus. [ 1 ] He was probably a contemporary of Hegemon of Thasos , about the end of the fifth and the beginning of the fourth centuries BC, but at all events he cannot be placed later than the time of Philip of Macedon .
Matron literature, a literary genre which focuses on older female characters as protagonists; Matron of honor, a married senior bridesmaid; Matron's badge, a gentlewoman's headdress worn in the Scottish Highlands in former times; Matron Head, 1816–1839 design of the Coronet large cent issued by the United States Mint
Margaret Elwyn Sparshott CBE RRC (4 August 1870 – 9 October 1940) was a British nurse.She was the principal matron of Manchester Royal Infirmary, and of the Territorial Force Nursing Service at Manchester, England.
Eva Charlotte Ellis Luckes (she spelled her name Lückes with the umlaut until World War I) [1] [2] was born in Exeter, Devon on 8 July 1854 into an upper middle-class family. [3]
Muriel Powell was appointed In the Queen's Honors' list, first, as a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) [5] in 1962 and then as a Dame (DBE) [6] in 1968 for her services to nursing, and specifically her membership of the Salmon Committee and including her tenure as matron of St George's Hospital, London.