Dr. Mabel E. Elliott, an American physician, served in Turkey, Armenia, and Greece from 1919 to 1923, helping Armenian and Greek refugees and orphans following World War I. She saw unimaginable suffering and hunger while caring for thousands of refugees after the Armenian Genocide.
Rose Wilder Lane, journalist and novelist, worked for the American Red Cross and Near East Relief from 1919 to 1923. Dr. Elliott agreed to work on a book for Near East Relief and the two collaborated on a sweeping memoir that combined Dr. Elliott's diaries and letters with Rose Wilder Lane's research on Armenia and its history. The result was a book that became one of the best-known post-World War I memoirs. Lane is most remembered as Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter, serving as editor for her mother's Little House series of books.
Dr. Elliott's engaging reports and letters were a publicity mainstay for the Near East Relief and American Women's Hospital organizations to help tell the refugee and orphan story to the American public. Dr. Elliott's Battle of Marash siege diary is a harrowing tale of her three-day trek leading Armenian refugees across mountains in a blizzard. Rose Wilder Lane wrote articles about Armenia and Greece for several American magazines, including Good Housekeeping, McClure's, and Asia.
Lane's collaboration with Dr. Elliott on her book was hidden for more than a century, uncovered during research for Dr. Elliott's 2025 biography, Unbreakable Healer. Lane's rumored "Armenia book," thought lost or never finished, had been found.
Dr. Elliott's forthright tales and Rose Wilder Lane's soaring prose make for a book that places the reader in the middle of America's efforts to care for refugees and orphans in Turkey, Armenia, and Greece a century ago.
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Mabel Evelyn Elliott was born on February 8, 1881, in London, England, and immigrated with her family to the United States in 1883. She grew up in Florida and later attended St. Agnes School in Albany, New York. In 1904, she and her sister, Grace Elliott Papot, became among the first women to earn medical degrees from the University of Chicago's Rush Medical College.After an internship at Cook County Hospital, Elliott joined the American Women's Hospitals Service during World War I. In 1919, she ran a hospital for Armenian refugees in Marash, Turkey, surviving the city's siege and leading a perilous winter escape through the Taurus Mountains. She later directed refugee hospitals in Turkey and served in Soviet Armenia, organizing large orphan care programs.In 1922, Elliott became General Medical Director for the American Women's Hospitals in Greece, aiding refugees after the burning of Smyrna and receiving several Greek honors for her service. She returned to the U.S. in 1923 but soon moved abroad again, accepting a position in 1925 as head of public health at St. Luke's International Medical Center in Tokyo. She became the first American woman physician licensed in Japan and rose to chief of pediatrics.Elliott returned to the U.S. in 1941, later working with returning World War II missionaries. She spent her later years in Florida, continuing to practice medicine in semi-retirement. She died in West Palm Beach on June 13, 1968, at age 87.
