Jessie White Mario (9 May 1832, Hampshire, England – 5 March 1906, Florence, Italy) was an English (and naturalized Italian) writer and philanthropist. She is sometimes referred to as “Hurricane Jessie” in the Italian press.
She was a nurse to General Garibaldi’s soldiers in four wars; she researched living conditions in subterranean Naples and working conditions in Sicily’s sulphur mines. She wrote copiously (in English and Italian) as both a journalist and a biographer.
Her most famous biography was about Giuseppe Garibaldi.
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