Jessie White Mario

This article is about the British writer. For the American supermodel, see Jessica White. For other uses, see Jesse White (disambiguation).

Jessie White Mario (1832–1906).
Jessie White remembered in Italy.

Jessie White Mario (9 May 1832 in Hampshire, England – 5 March 1906 in Florence, Italy) was an English (and naturalized Italian) writer and philanthropist. She is sometimes referred to as "Hurricane Jessie" in the Italian press.[1]

She was a nurse to General Giuseppe 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.[2]

  1. ^ Hurricane Jessie (It)
  2. ^ Jessie Mario White. Garibaldi e i suoi tempi Treves Editoriale. Milano, 1884