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.
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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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Louisa Catherine Shore
Other poems in the collection are more interesting, if no less devoted to British nationalism, including the title piece, which presents an extended parallel between the poet and the soldier whose genius writes in words...
Residence Mary Seacole
Her Wonderful Adventures attributes to pure racism the failure to take up her offer. She attempted unsuccessfully to meet with the Secretary-at-War, then with someone from the office of the Quartermaster General, then the Medical...
Residence Mary Seacole
En route, she stopped at Florence Nightingale 's hospital at Scutari; her offer of assistance was declined, and she was put up for the night in the room of a washerwoman.
Seacole, Mary, and William L. Andrews. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands. Oxford University Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence Mary Seacole
MS positions herself throughout the text not as an independent woman who needed to support herself by selling meals, goods, and medical services, but rather as a selfless woman dedicated to the service of others:...
Reception Mary Seacole
The Times demanded in November 1856 when MS 's financial straits became known: While the benevolent deeds of Florence Nightingale are being handed down to posterity . . . are the humbler actions of Mrs...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Jean Plaidy
In the Victorian-era Secret for a Nightingale (titled from the vocation of Florence Nightingale ) the heroine's husband has died from drug abuse and her baby from his neglect of it. She blames her family...
Reception Christabel Pankhurst
Nearly twenty years later Sylvia Pankhurst accused this book of sensationalism and of preaching the sex war deprecated and denied by the older Suffragists.
Purvis, June, and Maureen Wright. “Writing Suffragette History: the contending autobiographical narratives of the Pankhursts”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
14
, No. 3/4, pp. 405-33.
419
In the later twentieth century it was dismissed by a...
Textual Features Ann Oakley
This book covers a great deal of ground. When it turns back from Modern Problems to A Brief History of Methodology its exemplars include Margaret Cavendish (who also provides one of three opening epigraphs), the...
Intertextuality and Influence Caroline Norton
The verse narrative is written in rhyming couplets, sometimes in very regular pentameter and at others in quite irregular metre that reflects, for instance, the anguish of the speaker's musings on memory and death. Stylistically...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Caroline Norton
The early part of the work summarizing the legal position of women reads much like Barbara Leigh Smith 's A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women, published the...
Intertextuality and Influence Edith Mary Moore
The title-page quotes from Shakespeare (What's past is Prologue) and Cicero (That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood).
Moore, Edith Mary. The Defeat of Woman. C.W. Daniel Co.
prelims
The chapters run from Women and the Struggle...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Martineau
HM 's England and Her Soldiers took up Florence Nightingale 's cause of sanitary reform in the army.
Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
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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.
Health Harriet Martineau
She had a difficult journey home. Her brother James accompanied her, and several friends—Julia Smith (also an abolitionist and the aunt of Florence Nightingale ), who had been her travelling companion along with her...
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, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
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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.