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.
Despite the universal opinion that the sequel was decidedly weaker than the original, it nevertheless did well enough to go into several editions. The Saturday Review noted that it was a book which, even if...
Friends, Associates
Caroline Chisholm
A meeting at the London Tavern raised £900 for CC
as a public testimonial. Among the contributors were Florence Nightingale
, the Countess of Pembroke
, and other members of the aristocracy.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. Melbourne University Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Rosa Nouchette Carey
Critic Elaine Hartnell
observes that Frances runs her nursing home on the principles outlined in Florence Nightingale
's government document Suggestions on the Subject of Providing, Training, and Organising Nurses for the Sick Poor in...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Rosa Nouchette Carey
In her introduction, Carey expresses her wish that her sketches of twelve noble and useful lives be read and studied by women of this generation, and go and do thou likewise be written upon some...
politics
Josephine Butler
An early action of the LNA was to publish their petition, or The Ladies' Appeal and Protest, in the Daily News in December 1869, following Harriet Martineau
's letters written as An Englishwoman which...
William Aytoun
reviewed this volume (anonymously, according to permanent policy) in Blackwood's under the title Poetic Aberrations. Objecting that [t]o bless and not to curse is woman's function, and counselling EBB
to take her...
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...
Textual Production
Lilian Bowes Lyon
LBL
's work has been reprinted in The World Split Open, 1984, edited by Louise Bernikow
; it has been discussed by Margaret Willy
(in Essays and Studies, 1952), and Anne Treneer
(in...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
The pamphlet identified the poverty of many gentlewomen and lobbied for legislative changes to expand employment opportunities for women.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
125
Women and Work was an early exploration of the consequences of imposed female idleness, and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Isabella Beeton
An anonymous doctor was credited in IB
's preface with the authorship of both The Rearing and Management of Children, and Diseases of Infancy and Childhood and the medical chapter.
Beeton, Isabella. Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management. Editor Humble, Nicola, Oxford University Press.
