Shaw, George Bernard. “An Explanatory Word from Mr. Shaw”. Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats: Letters, edited by Clifford Bax, Home and Van Thal, 1946, p. vii - x.
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William Farr
Standard Name: Farr, William
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Farr | FF
's father, William Farr
, was a successful doctor, medical statistician, and reformer. He lectured and published on the subject of hygiene, which he preferred to call hygiology. Bernard Shaw
describes him as... |
| Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | By 1858 she was in correspondence with Harriet Martineau
. She also knew John Stuart Mill
, Giuseppe Garibaldi
, James Clark
, Edwin Chadwick
, William Rathbone
, Julia Wedgwood
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Occupation | Florence Nightingale | The expertise FN
gained while in Crimea placed her time in demand. Medical officers consulted her on hospital plans, as did the army when expeditionary forces left for China. On her own time, she fought... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Florence Farr | When FF
's father died on 14 April 1883, he left his daughter only a modest income. By Shaw's account, William Farr
had survived his wits and lost most of his means by senile speculations. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975. 13 |
Timeline
1841
The Registrar General's Office announced the national statistic that over 3,000 mothers died each year during childbirth.
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