Before Lady-with-the-Lamp: Florence Nightingale’s Grand Tour
Journal: Victorians
Year: 2014

8 Victorians Journal Before Lady-with-the-Lamp: Florence Nightingale’s Grand Tour by Richard Bonfiglio The Lady with the Lamp Florence Nightingale arrived in Scutari on November 4, 1854, leading a contingent of nurses to aid the wounded in the Crimean War—thanks to the British press, she was already an international celebrity. While still en route to the Crimea, she earned fame through a series of newspaper articles introducing her to the British public as a well-educated lady who had forgone a