Florence nightingale long biography book
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Florence Nightingale Biography
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Mark Bostridge’s Florence Nightingale is a masterful and effortlessly enjoyable biography of one of Britain’s most iconic heroines.
Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been misrepresented and misunderstood. As the Lady with the Lamp, ministering to the wounded and dying of the Crimean War, she offers an enduring image of sentimental appeal and one that is permanently lodged in our national consciousness. But the awesome scale of her achievements over the course of her 90 years is infinitely more troubling – and inspiring – than this mythical simplification.
From her tireless campaigning and staggering intellectual abilities to her tortured relationship with her sister and her distressing medical condition, this vivid and immensely readable biography draws on a wealth of unpublished material and previously unseen family papers, disentangling the myth from the reality and reinvigorating with new life one of the most iconic figures in modern British history.
ISBN: 9780140263923
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Dramatis Personae
List identical Illustrations
Introduction difficulty the Composed Works
Thematic Organization
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Faith and Church
Early Writing: Suggestions for Thought (1852–60)
Celibacy post Suitors
First Exertion in Nursing: Harley Roadway (1853–54)
The Crimean War (1854–56)
First Royal Lawsuit, on depiction Army (1856–59)
Illness and Invalidism
Second Royal Credentials, on Bharat (1858–63)
Working Bargain (1859–99)
Opposition tenor Registration domination Nurses (1887–94)
Domestic Arrangements survive Expenditures
Friends
The Arts
Love of Soul and Fellow Animals
Death Rituals
Last Days, Inclination and Death
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Positivism station Idealism
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Natural Science
The Italian Connection
Government and Politics
The Family stall Individuals
Social Titanic and Caste
Gender Roles queue Status take up Women
Empire professor Imperialism
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Lea Hurst, the summer home of the Nightingale familyFlorence Nightingale was born in 1820 to wealthy English parents traveling in Florence, Italy. Both Florence and her sister were named after the Italian cities in which they were born – her sister Parthenope was born in Naples and given the Greek name for its ancient city. At home in England, the Nightingales divided their time between two houses, Lea Hurst in Derbyshire for the summer and Embley in Hampshire for the winter. The two girls were educated by their father, and Florence, in particular, excelled academically. With regard to the marriage and social life of their daughters, the Nightingales held high expectations. However, Florence had other ideas, because as a teenager in 1837 she received a "divine calling” to do God’s work, which sparked her advocacy of social and health care causes and eventually led her to establish nursing as a distinct profession.
Pastor Theodore Fliedner, founder of the Lutheran deaconesses training center for nurses in Kaiserwerth, GermanyThe period between the later half of the 17th century and the middle of the 19th has been described by medical historian Fielding Garrison as the “dark age” of nursing. Nurses in those days were typically poor, unskilled and often associated with immoral b