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.
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
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.
4
The former chapter supports...
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
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.
453
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
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
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
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...
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
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...
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...
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
219
Wedgwood, Barbara, and Hensleigh Wedgwood. The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends. Studio Vista.
258
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.
xxi
Friends, Associates
Frances Isabella Duberly
FIDmade friends with almost all hands of the Shooting Star, on which she sailed to the Crimea, and they gathered to cheer her as she left the ship at Varna.
Duberly, Frances Isabella. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6. Editor Kelly, Christine, Oxford University Press.
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(She also mentions...
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...
