Author: haroldkent0
Honor Mamath brings journalist Jessie White into the spotlight with book “I Remember the Risorgimento”
Get a glimpse of the Risorgimento through the accounts of Jessie White. Jessie White Mario, an Englishwoman (and later naturalized Italian) who is hailed as a heroine of Italys unification, is immortalized in the book I Remember the Risorgimento (Xlibris; 2020) by Honor Mamath. The author happens to be related to Jessie Whites aunt, Louise Biden. Jessie White, made herself a name in journalism as the first woman correspondent for the London Daily News and the New York Evening Post from 1854 to 1860 and The Nation for forty years afterwards. She dedicated herself to the Risorgimento (Italian unification). ... Read more