Archives of families and people – Chambers Maria Elisabetta

This collection contains letters and documents pertaining to British Maria Elisabetta Chambers, the wife of Colonel Chambers, one of the British volunteers who fought alongside Giuseppe Garibaldi. Wife of British Colonel John Hunchinbotton Chambers, who fought with a battalion of British volunteers alongside Garibaldi in the 1866 campaign. M. Elisabeth Chambers was part of a committee of English women who promoted initiatives to assist the wounded, English and Italian, and also had among its aims the promotion of education in Italy and the opening of industrial schools in Sardinia and elsewhere, for which it hired teachers and provided support materials, books and machinery.