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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Literary responses Harriet Martineau
Maria Edgeworth wrote to HM to express her admiration of The Hour and the Man, and Florence Nightingale said after the author's death that she had read it repeatedly and considered it the finest...
Literary responses Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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...
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
Occupation Catherine Marsh
When in early 1854 England and France were in alliance to defend Turkey, and declared war on Russia on 28 March, launching the first Crimean War,
O’Rorke, Lucy. The Life and Friendships of Catherine Marsh. Longmans, Green & Co.
96
CM immediately set about distributing New Testaments...
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...
Occupation Felicia Skene
Some of these nurses, trained by FS , later went to Crimea with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
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...
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/.
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...
Publishing Harriet Martineau
HM was one of the first to be aware of the movement towards regulating prostitution in Britain by means of instituting in military districts the arrest and medical examination for syphilis of women who were...
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...
Publishing Harriet Martineau
HM furthered Nightingale 's work in other ways too, producing a lengthy piece in the Quarterly Review (seizing the occasion to promote her own earlier Life in the Sick-Room) and a shorter one in...
Reception Catherine Marsh
Her father's biography was well-received, particularly because he was a widely-known and respected man. It incorporated an excerpt of a review from The Guardian, which complimented the portrait as a vehicle for emotion, stating...
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...

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