Florence Nightingale : the making of an icon / Mark Bostridge.
Bostridge, Mark.
2008
RT37.N5 B67 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Florence Nightingale : the making of an icon / Mark Bostridge.
Author Bostridge, Mark.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780374156657 (alk. paper)
0374156654 (alk. paper)
Publication Details New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Language English
Description xxiii, 646 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number RT37.N5 B67 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 610.73092 B
Summary 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 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. In the first major biography of Florence Nightingale in more than fifty years, Mark Bostridge draws on a wealth of unpublished material, including previously unseen family papers, to throw new light on this extraordinary woman's life and character.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 readable account of one of the most iconic figures in modern history.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Part 1 Daughter of England 1820-54
Part 2 Lady with the Lamp 1854-6
Part 3 Mother of the Army 1856-71
Part 4 Queen of Nurses 1871-1910
Part 5 Icon.

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