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Florence Nightingale is famous as the “lady with the lamp” in the Crimean War, 1854—56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nightingale’s correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. This volume contains much on Nightingale’s efforts to achieve real reforms. Her well-known, and relatively “sanitized”, evidence to the royal commission on the war is compared with her confidential, much franker, and very thorough Notes on the Health of the British Army, where the full horrors of disease and neglect are laid out, with the names of those responsible.
Excerpt from Florence Nightingale, 1820-1856: A Study of Her Life Down to the and of the Crimean War Sir Edward Cook's two large volumes, published by Messrs. Macmillan in 1915, give a wonderfully complete record of her work and include some valuable letters and quotations. They were abridged and revised in 1925 by Miss Nightingale's cousin, Mrs. Vaughan Nash, and this shorter biography, also published by Messrs. Macmillan, is still obtainable and should be in the posses sion of all who care about Florence Nightingale and do not own the larger book. In the present volume I have attempted something rather different from that which was so well accomplished by Sir Edward Cook and Mrs. Vaughan Nash. I have tried to give a faint representation of what might have been in the autobiography if it had existed and to show Florence Nightingale's early years as they may have appeared to herself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The world knows Florence Nightingale as "the lady with the lamp"--the revered founder of nursing as a respectable profession for women. But few people are aware that Nightingale's career began only after years of struggle to free herself from her suffocating Victorian family. In this surprisingly passionate feminist essay (a "brilliant polemic," states Martha Vicinus), Nightingale denounces the lives of idleness she and other women of her class were forced to lead.