King's College Hospital

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Family and Intimate relationships Georgette Heyer
Georgette's father, George Heyer , was born in 1869 as the son of an immigrant from Russia. He attended King's College School in London (first opened in the basement of King's College proper) and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Health Rose Macaulay
After her flat was bombed and all her personal belongings and books destroyed, RM was admitted to King's College Hospital in Brixton, South London, suffering from a gastric ulcer.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
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Occupation Florence Nightingale
That month she was also offered the future post of Superintendent of Nurses at another London institution, the partially-rebuilt King's College Hospital ; the Crimean War began before she could accept the position.
Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Editors Vicinus, Martha and Bea Nergaard, Harvard University Press, 1990.
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Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice, 2002.
xx, 123
Cook, Edward. The Life of Florence Nightingale. Macmillan, 1913, 2 vols.
141
Other Life Event Florence Nightingale
FN officially opened a school at King's College Hospital in London to train midwives.
Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Editors Vicinus, Martha and Bea Nergaard, Harvard University Press, 1990.
5, 226-7
Textual Production Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
Their letter, which was published on 30 March, was a response to previous correspondence from Sir James Purves-Stewart , Senior Physician at Westminster Hospital . He had written that new women medical students should not...
Textual Production Florence Nightingale
She dedicated this work to Phainarete , mother of Socrates , who was reputedly a midwife.
Dossey, Barbara Montgomery. Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer. Springhouse Corporation, 2000.
311
Without her knowing it, her proposal followed in the footsteps of that submitted by Elizabeth Cellier in 1687...

Timeline

18 July 1848: The Sisters of St John's House was established...

Building item

18 July 1848

The Sisters of St John's House was established at King's College Hospital for the newly founded Anglican nursing order, the Community of Nursing Sisters of St John the Divine .
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
205
Poovey, Mary, and Florence Nightingale. “Introduction”. Cassandra and Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought, edited by Mary Poovey and Mary Poovey, New York University Press, 1993.
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Cartwright, Frederick F. et al. The Story of King’s College Hospital and its Medical School. Editor Britten, D. J., Farrand Press, 1991.
21
Abel-Smith, Brian. A History of the Nursing Profession. Heinemann, 1960.
19
Williams, Katherine. “From Sarah Gamp to Florence Nightingale: A Critical Study of Hospital Nursing Systems from 1840 to 1897”. Rewriting Nursing History, edited by Celia Davies, Barnes and Noble, 1980, pp. 41-75.
46, 51

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