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Agnes Hannah von Kurowsky Stanfield (January 5, 1892 – November 25, 1984) was an American nurse who inspired the character "Catherine Barkley" in Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. Kurowsky served as a nurse in an American Red Cross hospital in Milan during World War I .
- Bellevue Nurses Training Program
- American
- Red Cross
- January 5, 1892, Germantown, Philadelphia, U.S.
Other articles where Agnes von Kurowsky is discussed: A Farewell to Arms: Autobiographical elements: …love with a nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky. At age 26, von Kurowsky was seven years his senior. Although she did not fully reciprocate his love, von Kurowsky was fond of Hemingway and enjoyed his company. In a diary entry on August 25, 1918, she wrote that Hemingway “has a…
Sep 17, 1989 · The letter, dated March 7, 1919, was sent to Ernest Hemingway by Agnes Hannah von Kurowsky, the Red Cross nurse who cared for him in an Italian hospital during World War I and ended up breaking ...
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The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is dedicated to the memory of our nation's thirty-fifth president and to all those who through the art of politics seek a new and better world. Columbia Point, Boston MA 02125 (617) 514-1600. Hemingway’s first love was Red Cross nurse Agnes von Kurowsky (1892-1984), whom he met while being ...
Born in Germantown, Pa., Agnes Von Kurowsky was the daughter of an aristocratic German immigrant (hence her surname’s “Von” prefix) and spent her childhood in rural Alaska and Vancouver, Canada. After attending high school in Washington, D.C., she went to work for the Washington Public Library, but found it dull and moved to New York City ...
Oct 17, 1989 · Miss von Kurowsky, a nurse who grew up in Washington and trained at Bellevue Hospital in New York, was 26 years old when she met the 19-year-old Hemingway in a hospital in Milan after he had been ...
Apr 5, 2021 · While there, he fell in love with an American nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky. When he returned to Oak Park, in 1919, it was with the understanding that he and Agnes would marry. But she soon wrote ...
