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, 1996.
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
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.
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Wedgwood, Barbara, and Hensleigh Wedgwood. The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends. Studio Vista, 1980.
258
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 ....
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...
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, 1877, 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.
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, Abridged, Oxford University Press, 2000.
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The former chapter supports...
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, 1985.
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Women and Work was an early exploration of the consequences of imposed female idleness, and...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Williams
In offering an alternative to the official account of the war and the hagiography surrounding Nightingale , as well as in seeking to improve the material circumstances of its subject, the book resembles that of...
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:...
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., 1935.
prelims
The chapters run from Women and the Struggle...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 . . . .
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Glendinning, Victoria. “Speranza: A Leaning Tower of Courage”. Genius in the Drawing-Room, edited by Peter Quennell, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1980, pp. 101-16.
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Literary responses Caroline Clive
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...

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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.
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, 1870, 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, 3 vols.
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, 16 vols.
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, 1869.
Nightingale, Florence. “The People of India”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
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, No. 18, 1878, 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.
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, No. 10, 1878, pp. 145-7.