Florence Nightingale: The Making of an IconThe common soldier’s savior, the standard-bearer of modern nursing, a pioneering social reformer: Florence Nightingale belongs to that select band of historical characters who are instantly recognizable. Home-schooled, bound for the life of an educated Victorian lady, Nightingale scandalized her family when she found her calling as a nurse, a thoroughly unsuitable profession for a woman of her class. As the “Lady with the Lamp,” ministering to the wounded and dying of the Crimean War, she offers an enduring image of sentimental appeal. Few individuals in their own lifetime have reached the level of fame and adulation attained by Nightingale as a result of her efforts. Fewer still have the power of continuing to inspire controversy in the way she does almost a century after her death. In this remarkable book, the first major biography of Florence Nightingale in more than fifty years, Mark Bostridge draws on a wealth of unpublished material, including previously unseen family papers, to throw new light on this extraordinary woman’s life and character. Disentangling elements of myth from the reality, Bostridge has written a vivid and immensely readable account of one of the most iconic figures in modern history. |
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Contents
Title Page Epigraph Prologue Table of Contents | 1736 |
Part One Daughter of England 182054 | 1743 |
The Ridiculous Name of Nightingale | 1745 |
Pop and | 1772 |
Pink Satin Ghosts | 1816 |
This Loathsome Life | |
To Be Happy in My Own | |
Your Vagabond | |
Thorn in the Flesh | |
Dying by Inches | |
Philomela | |
A Crying Evil | |
Part Four Queen of Nurses 18711910 | |
Taking Charge | |
A Taste of Heaven in Daily Life | |
Battle of the Nurses | |
Unloving Love | |
In the Heyday of My Power | |
Part Two Lady with the Lamp 18546 | |
Calamity Unparalleled | |
A Visible March to Heaven | |
Shall Never Forget | |
Part Three Mother of the Army 185671 | |
A Turbulent Fellow | |
Lustre on the Name | |
Part Five Icon | |
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALES FAMILY | |
List of Illustrations | |
Acknowledgements | |
Index | |
Notes | |
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