Martha Jane Loane (7 February 1852 – 1933) was a nurse and social commentator.[1]
Loane has been considered “the most prolific female social investigator in Britain before the First World War, publishing six full-length books between 1905 and 1911 and scores of articles based on her penetrating observations as a Queen’s Nurse among the ‘respectable poor’ in London, Derbyshire and Portsmouth.”[2]