Susan Fleming - Author Book Signing
Name:
Susan Fleming - Author Book Signing
Date:
April 19, 2014
Time:
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
Website:
http://www.bookpeopleofmoscow.com
Event Description:
Come meet author Susan Fleming, who will be signing copies of her book, Seattle Pioneer Midwife.
This is the story of Susan's great-grandmother Alice Ada Wood Ellis - who was a single mother with two small children - Myrtle who was 2 ½ years old and Marie who was a 6 month-old baby. She travelled to Seattle in 1900 on a locomotive steam train to join the Alaska-Yukon-Klondike Gold Rush Stampede. She built a home in the Green Lake neighborhood, and soon after, placed two beds in the front parlor of her home and helped women with birthing. She fulfilled her calling as a pioneer midwife-nurse.
This saga includes life in 1895 nursing schools, train robbers, birthing in the home, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, women's suffrage, bubonic plague and unclaimed children. Stories from the 1918 Great Pandemic Flu and the Great Depression conclude this remarkable journey.
Ms. Fleming is currently an Assistant Professor at Washington State University College of Nursing. She has been a registered nurse for over 30 years and has worked with moms and babies since the 1970s. She teaches nursing students and researches birthing and technology. Susan received her PhD in 2011 and for her dissertation she interviewed 14 childbearing women about their 116 birthing experiences. She is a Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist.
This is the story of Susan's great-grandmother Alice Ada Wood Ellis - who was a single mother with two small children - Myrtle who was 2 ½ years old and Marie who was a 6 month-old baby. She travelled to Seattle in 1900 on a locomotive steam train to join the Alaska-Yukon-Klondike Gold Rush Stampede. She built a home in the Green Lake neighborhood, and soon after, placed two beds in the front parlor of her home and helped women with birthing. She fulfilled her calling as a pioneer midwife-nurse.
This saga includes life in 1895 nursing schools, train robbers, birthing in the home, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, women's suffrage, bubonic plague and unclaimed children. Stories from the 1918 Great Pandemic Flu and the Great Depression conclude this remarkable journey.
Ms. Fleming is currently an Assistant Professor at Washington State University College of Nursing. She has been a registered nurse for over 30 years and has worked with moms and babies since the 1970s. She teaches nursing students and researches birthing and technology. Susan received her PhD in 2011 and for her dissertation she interviewed 14 childbearing women about their 116 birthing experiences. She is a Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist.
