Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
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Education | Kate Marsden | KM
's decision to become a nurse was inspired by her own interests and her family's financial insecurity. In early 1877, she began to study and work at the Deaconesses' Institution and Training Hospital
at... |
Education | Penelope Shuttle | Some sources say that PS
attended a secondary modern school in Staines (that is one with non-academic aims and expectations). But attendance at a private school is strongly implied by her poem about a girls'... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Clive | In a letter Florence Nightingale
wrote of CC
: She is now married and has two children and I never saw happiness so stamped on any human creature's face. I liked her exceedingly and admire... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Arthur Hugh Clough | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Ward Howe | JWH
's second daughter, Florence
, was born, and was named after Florence Nightingale
, the remarkable young woman whom the Howes had met while on honeymoon in Europe. Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory. Little, Brown and Co., 1978. 86 Howe, Julia Ward. Reminiscences, 1819–1899. Houghton Mifflin, 1899. 136 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Her first cousins included Florence Nightingale
, Hilary Bonham-Carter
, and the future Mrs Arthur CloughArthur Hugh Clough
. Because of their illegitimate origins, however, the Smith children were not acknowledged by the Nightingales, and BLSB
only... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
's father was the sixth William Rathbone
in a Lancashire family which was Quaker
, Unitarian
, Liberal
and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emma Caroline Wood | |
Friends, Associates | Julia Wedgwood | JW
and her sister Euphemia
were close to Meta
and Marianne Gaskell
. Another friend of JW
was Florence Nightingale
. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993. 219 Wedgwood, Barbara, and Hensleigh Wedgwood. The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends. Studio Vista, 1980. 258 |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
and Florence Nightingale
became correspondents in the 1860s, on matters such as nursing. Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235. xxi |
Friends, Associates | Frances Isabella Duberly | FIDmade friends with almost all hands of the Shooting Star, on which she sailed to the Crimea, and they gathered to cheer her as she left the ship at Varna. Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Kelly, ChristineEditor , Oxford University Press, 2007. 19 |
Friends, Associates | Ann Bridge | As a small girl AB
met Florence Nightingale
, whom she remembered as a very old lady, with a ravaged, majestically intelligent face. . . . the hand that writes these words has touched the... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | During their visits to London, the Brownings socialised with such prominent figures as John Ruskin
, Jane
and Thomas Carlyle
, Alfred Tennyson
, Dante Gabriel
and William Michael Rossetti
, and Charles Kingsley
.... |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Skene | From her youth FS
was accustomed to mixing with distinguished people. Sir Walter Scott
, a friend of both of her parents, found her youthful company a relief when he was old and ill. In... |