British Library Catalogue.
Edwin Chadwick
Standard Name: Chadwick, Edwin
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Farr | FF
's father, William Farr
, was a successful doctor, medical statistician, and reformer. He lectured and published on the subject of hygiene, which he preferred to call hygiology. Bernard Shaw
describes him as... |
Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | By 1858 she was in correspondence with Harriet Martineau
. She also knew John Stuart Mill
, Giuseppe Garibaldi
, James Clark
, Edwin Chadwick
, William Rathbone
, Julia Wedgwood
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Nightingale | Notes on Hospitals was published in 1859. Apparently Edwin Chadwick
first encouraged FN
to write on sanitation. Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice, 2002. 156 |
Textual Features | Florence Nightingale | The letters span FN
's entire life and include examples of her correspondences with Edwin Chadwick
, Benjamin Jowett
, Harriet Martineau
, and Mary Clarke Mohl
. Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Vicinus, Martha and Bea NergaardEditors , Harvard University Press, 1990. 443-5 |
Timeline
1841
The census of this year revealed 712,493 women in Britain employed in domestic service, 115,425 in cotton manufacture, 89,079 in dressmaking and millinery, 35,262 in agricultural labour, and 30,150 in teaching.
July 1842
Edwin Chadwick
presented his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain to the House of Lords
.