This book details the training, careers, family life, business enterprises, travel to and between towns/villages, friendships and partnerships, community participation and their contribution to the profession of 200 midwives and the hospitals they established or managed. Mothers and daughters walking together, two or three sisters, and friends, so many women friends establishing hospitals, practicing their midwifery together, operating a business together or simply working in the same place. This is an extraordinary history of women developing professional maternity care for women in country towns. Many decades since they are still remembered in these communities. This publication ensures that their stories are recorded for future generations.”–Back cover.