Josephine Winslow Johnson was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1876. During World War I, when her husband was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, she became a nurse in a Field Hospital in France. In addition to nursing, she wrote articles and short stories for magazines and newspapers. In addition to short stories, she wrote a novel called The Girl from Seneca Falls about a girl who goes to the Seneca Falls Convention
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She also wrote a play called "The Girl from Seneca Falls" which went on the road and played in many cities across the country. In 1929, she published her autobiography titled "A Woman of Fifty, with One Chapter Missing", which is filled with fascinating information about the history of medicine and medicine in general.