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Who is the ""Amazon""? What type of historical knowledge does she represent? In the daughter of time

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1. Nurse Daroll

2. She represent the historical knowledge of goddess Amazon

Step-by-step explanation:

In the book titled The Daughter of Time written by Josephine Tey. Nurse Darroll was given the name "Amazon" by Alan Grant, who is a detective that is being treated in a hospital.

Nurse Darroll was one of the two nurses that attended to Alan Grant in the hospital. And Grant labeled her such name because he felt Nurse Darroll has "arms like the limb of a beech tree." Thereby representing the historical knowledge of the goddess Amazon.

In the book, Nurse Darroll is from Gloucestershire while the second Nurse's original name is Ingham but was nicknamed "The Midgét."

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