FN
's sister, Parthenope Nightingale
, married Sir Harry Verney
, second baronet, of Claydon in Buckinghamshire, in 1858. Sir Harry was said to be one of the handsomest men in England.
Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses, 1962.
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Literary responses
Florence Nightingale
According to scholars William Bishop
and Sue Goldie
, some of the addresses are very long in the original and to sit through a reading must have been an ordeal, even when they were read...