Florence Nightingale

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Standard Name: Nightingale, Florence
Birth Name: Florence Nightingale
Nickname: Flo
Nickname: The Lady-in-Chief
Nickname: The Lady of the Lamp
Nickname: Commander-in-Chief
Nickname: Wild Ass of the Wilderness
FN 's fame began when she headed nurses in the Crimean war. After the war, she worked to reform health care and promoted sanitation at home and abroad. To this end she composed speeches, government reports, statistical analyses, articles, and pamphlets. She travelled extensively in her youth, producing many letters which were later collected and published. She also wrote theology, including the work which contains her feminist fragment Cassandra. Although FN was a versatile, political, and prolific writer (she produced over two hundred literary works during her career), she is remembered almost solely for her nursing work.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research.
166: 268
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of the young Florence Nightingale. She is wearing a simple black dress with lace collar and lace cap, and looking directly into the camera.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Frances Power Cobbe
FPC 's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time...
Textual Production Lettice Cooper
LC issued further biographies of eminent Victorians designed for young people: The Young Florence Nightingale, 1960, The Young Victoria, 1961, The Young Edgar Allan Poe, 1964, and A Hand Upon the Time...
Textual Production Mary Angela Dickens
Taylor worked as a nurse alongside Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War before converting to Catholicism and establishing her Congregation . She published a novel about historical persecution of English Catholics as well as an...
Occupation Monica Dickens
Quite early in 1940 (after a spell as a writer and another collecting scrap iron for armaments) MD joined the Red Cross as a VAD (that is, a Voluntary Aid Detachment volunteer nurse), then became...
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. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press.
19
(She also mentions...
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...
Textual Features Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Her authors run from Jane Austen and some contemporaries to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Harriet Martineau . Elizabeth Fry , Mary Carpenter , and Florence Nightingale represent philanthropy, Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville science, and...
Textual Features Eva Figes
Her letter-writers range from such prominent figures as Frances, Lady Nelson , and Florence Nightingale (two women whose connections with warfare by sea and land were unusual to say the least), to ordinary women, most...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Forster
For subjects of particular chapters she chooses Caroline Norton , Elizabeth Blackwell , Florence Nightingale , Josephine Butler , Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Margaret Sanger , and Emma Goldman , selected this time not for...
Intertextuality and Influence Monica Furlong
This book reflects MF 's wide reading and an impish sense of humour employed to help her and her readers live with the unacceptable. Each chapter comes headed by a very funny cartoon and a...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Gaskell
While staying at Lea Hurst near Matlock in Derbyshire, EG met Florence Nightingale (who was shortly to leave for the Crimea) for the first time.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
361-2
politics Elizabeth Gaskell
In contrast to her refusal to commit herself publicly on domestic politics, EG supported the struggle for Italian independence. Her name appeared on a petition spearheaded by Florence Nightingale in support of Garibaldi 's troops...
Occupation Elizabeth Gaskell
She also corresponded with Florence Nightingale to ask if any of the unemployed women could train as nurses, and solicited donations from philanthropists.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
502, 665n20
Textual Features Elizabeth Gaskell
The issue of female employment is as important to this text as its better-known concern with sexual transgression, since Ruth is a redundant woman with few options open to her. In fact, her infusion of...
Textual Features Sarah Josepha Hale
Editorial policy was to avoid anything controversial in mainstream politics. The magazine never mentioned the Civil War during the course of the conflict. In contrast to the Ladies' Magazine, the new one had a...

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Texts

Nightingale, Florence. “Nurses, Training of; Nursing the Sick”. A Dictionary of Medicine, edited by Richard Quain, Longmans, Green, 1882, pp. 1038-43.
Nightingale, Florence. Observations on the Evidence Contained in the Stational Reports Submitted to Her by the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India. Stanford, 1863.
Nightingale, Florence. “On Indian Sanitation”. Transactions of the Bengal Social Science Association, Vol.
4
, pp. 1-9.
Nightingale, Florence. “Sick-Nursing and Health-Nursing”. Woman’s Mission, edited by Angela Burdett-Coutts, S. Low, Marston, 1893, pp. 184-05.
Nightingale, Florence. Statements Exhibiting the Voluntary Contributions Received by Miss Nightingale for the Use of the British War Hospitals in the East. Harrison, 1857.
Nightingale, Florence. Suggestions for Thought to the Searchers After Truth. Privately Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1860.
Nightingale, Florence. Suggestions on a System of Nursing for Hospitals in India. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1865.
Nightingale, Florence. Suggestions on the Subject of Providing, Training, and Organizing Nurses for the Sick Poor in Workhouse Infirmaries. Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode for H. M. S. O., 1867.
Nightingale, Florence. The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014.
Nightingale, Florence. The Institution of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine. Inmates of the London Ragged Colonial Training School, 1851.
Ladies’ National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, et al. “The Ladies’ Appeal and Protest”. Daily News.
Nightingale, Florence. “The People of India”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
4
, No. 18, pp. 193-21.
Nightingale, Florence. “Una and the Lion”. Good Words, pp. 360-6.
Nightingale, Florence. Village Sanitation in India. Spottiswoode, 1894.
Nightingale, Florence. “Who Is the Savage?”. Social Notes, Vol.
1
, No. 10, pp. 145-7.