Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
With Bessie Rayner Parkes
, MH
co-edited the English Woman's Journal, for which she also wrote on such subjects as Harriet Hosmer
and Florence Nightingale
.
Rendall, Jane. “’A Moral Engine’? Feminism, Liberalism and the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>English Woman’s Journal</span>”;. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 112-38.
116, 120
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production
Matilda Hays
An article by MH
on Florence Nightingale
and the English Soldier appeared in the English Woman's Journal.
Rendall, Jane. “’A Moral Engine’? Feminism, Liberalism and the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>English Woman’s Journal</span>”;. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 112-38.
129, 265n60
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.
86
Howe, Julia Ward. Reminiscences, 1819–1899. Houghton Mifflin.
136
Textual Production
Elspeth Huxley
EH
thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare
's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice.
PDJ
returned to a hospital setting for her fourth mystery novel, Shroud for a Nightingale, which brought her high praise from critics and introduced her to a major world market.
The title, of course...
Publishing
Anna Brownell Jameson
ABJ
prepared two lectures that outlined her feminist principles: Sisters of Charity (1855) and The Communion of Labour (1856).
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press.
238
They took up the issues of female education and employment for women. The lectures were...
Textual Features
Anna Brownell Jameson
Her broad definition of sisters of charity extends to nurses, doctors, and poor law guardians, the managers of hospitals and charitable institutions, and women workers in prisons, reformatories and ragged schools. Her argument hinges on...
Leisure and Society
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Like Florence Nightingale
, JFLW
preferred the company of men. She declared in correspondence: as a rule I cannot stand girls or women, they are so flimsy, frivolous, feeble in purpose . . . .
Glendinning, Victoria. “Speranza: A Leaning Tower of Courage”. Genius in the Drawing-Room, edited by Peter Quennell, Weidenfield and Nicolson, pp. 101-16.
104
Textual Features
Elizabeth Jenkins
She describes how Tennyson, suffering from depression or nervous complaints, turned to Dr James Manby Gully and his celebrated Malvern water cure. She ranks Gully's medical abilities and his record of healing very highly. She...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sophia Jex-Blake
SJB
here discusses the benefit of women doctors in the treatment of female patients. She takes the reader through a timeline of women in medicine, dating back as far as ancient Greece, and including...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Eliza Lynn Linton
She dealt with books on such topics as biography, nursing and health issues, slavery, marriage, and North America.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
Among titles she probably covered were Florence Nightingale
's Notes on Nursing, George Browne
's The...
Textual Features
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
MHVR
humbly considers herself merely a normal person,
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. This Was My World. Macmillan.
x
writing what she has seen with the eyes of the mind.
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. This Was My World. Macmillan.
xii
The work is not a complete reconstruction of her life, since it wraps...
politics
Jessie White Mario
Lady Shaftesbury
served as first president. The association's subscribers included the Duchess of Argyll
, Florence Nightingale
, and Mrs Gladstone
. JWM
was living in Italy at the time of the founding.
O’Connor, Maura. The Romance of Italy and the English Political Imagination. St Martin’s Press.
107
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
