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 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...
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
This paper, a challenger to the Times, favoured free trade and other liberal causes.
Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
449
Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press.
314
HM wrote on everything from politics to agriculture, and from geography and history to the East and West...
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
Although Martineau appeared as the book's sole author, she and Nightingale were in effect collaborators. The latter solicited her help on the issue of sanitary reform, and supplied the data, including printer's plates for statistical...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Martineau
Female Industry is a wide-ranging review covering the 1851 census results, the reports of Poor Law Commissioners on women and children in agriculture, the Governesses' Benevolent Institution , and The Lowell Offering, as well...
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...
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
These collections supply parts of HM 's correspondence with Matthew Arnold , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Welsh Carlyle , John Chapman , Maria Weston Chapman , Anne Jemima Clough , Samuel Courtauld , Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Una Marson
Through her editorship of the magazine, UM drew attention to issues such as single motherhood, women struggling on meagre incomes, and unemployment among domestic workers. This is the age of woman: what man has done...
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...
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...
Textual Production Catherine Marsh
The book includes frequent letters to and from Marsh's sisters as well as her close friend Caroline Maitland . She also kept a regular correspondence with Florence Nightingale , Hedley Vicars , the Archbishop of Canterbury
Education Kate Marsden
KM 's decision to become a nurse was inspired by her own interests and her family's financial insecurity. In early 1877, she began to study and work at the Deaconesses' Institution and Training Hospital at...
Textual Production Kate Marsden
She ends this part of the volume not with her own signature but by quoting what she represents as an encouraging prayer or blessing from Florence Nightingale , who tells Marsden she prays the Father...
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/.
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...

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