Victorian medicine and social reform : Florence Nightingale among the novelists /
Penner, Louise.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-183) and index.
Defending home and country : Florence Nightingale's training of domestic detectives -- On giving : poor law reform, work, and family in Nightingale, Dickens, and Stretton -- Competing visions : Nightingale, Eliot, and Victorian health reform -- Engaging the Victorian reading public : Nightingale and the Madras Famine of 1876 -- Epilogue : Nightingale in the twenty-first century : the legend versus the life.
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
English prose literature
English prose literature
Social problems in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Literature and society
Literature and medicine