Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
212ff
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Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | Her friendship with Sidney Herbert
, an able, hard-working, high-principled, rising politician of about her own age, was regarded by her contemporaries as a love-affair, and her recent biographer Alan Chedzoy
agrees. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995. 212ff |
Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | Her notoriety (following the war and from her later work) placed FN
in the society of many important contemporaries, including every Prime Minister of her time. Dolan, Josephine A. Nursing In Society: A Historical Perspective. Saunders, 1973. 176 |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton | In the mid-1840s CN
acquired some new friends: biographer John Gibson Lockhart
, author Alexander William Kinglake
, rising young statesman Sidney Herbert
(direct descendant of the Countess of Pembroke
), and the intellectual translator... |
Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | In addition to her formative relationship with Madre Santa Colomba
, FN
became a close friend during her trips to Rome in 1847 and 1850 of Lord
and Lady Herbert
. This couple, Sidney and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Norton | |
Occupation | Florence Nightingale | Arthur Hugh Clough
saw her off on her mission, which turned out to last for twenty-one months. The events surrounding her departure are bathed in myth; as Mary Poovey
suggests, they supported her mystical election... |
Occupation | Florence Nightingale | From August 1856 to May 1857 FN
gave evidence on the state of sanitary conditions in the military to the Royal Commission on the Health of the Army
, which she had fought to have... |
Occupation | Caroline Chisholm | While the Chisholms themselves were responsible for most of the actual details of the FCLS, the society also had a Central Committee in London which included Lord Ashley
and Sidney Herbert
among other MPs and... |
politics | Harriett Mozley | HM
was one of those for whom religion and politics were hardly distinguishable. In 1832, during the time leading up to the Reform Bill, she sounds like a Tory in politics as she observes with... |
Textual Production | Florence Nightingale | That same year FN
helped Sidney Herbert
complete the official report of the Royal Commission on Sanitary Conditions in the British Army
, which also contained her testimony and statistical data. Cook, Edward. The Life of Florence Nightingale. Macmillan, 1913, 2 vols. 360 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Norton | The poem concerns the count and countess, a young, upper-class pair who love each other but whose lives are shattered when the countess is crippled by a riding accident. They regain a different kind of... |
Travel | Florence Nightingale | In April 1851 FN
was finally allowed to leave home after six months. She visited Sidney
and Elizabeth Herbert
at Wilton near Salisbury in Wiltshire. Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Editors Vicinus, Martha and Bea Nergaard, Harvard University Press, 1990. 45 This historic house had been country home for... |
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