Florence Nightingale the making of an icon /
The 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 he...
| Main Author: | Bostridge, Mark. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2008.
New York : 2008. |
| Physical Description: |
xxiii, 646 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Daughter of England 1820-54 : The ridiculous name of Nightingale ; Pop and Flo ; Pink satin ghosts ; This loathsome life ; To be happy in my own way ; Your vagabond son ; Unloving love ; In the hey-day of my power
- pt. 2. Lady with the lamp 1854-6 : Calamity unparalleled ; A visible march to heaven ; I shall never forget
- pt. 3. Mother of the army 1856-71 : A turbulent fellow ; Thorn in the flesh ; Dying by inches ; Philomela ; A crying evil
- pt. 4. Queen of nurses 1871-1910 : Taking charge ; A taste of heaven in daily life ; Battle of the nurses ; Lustre on the name
- pt. 5. Icon : A hard nut to crack.