Nightingales
Subtitle: the extraordinary upbringing and curious life of Miss Florence Nightingale
By: Gillian Gill
Edition: 2005 Random House trade pbk. ed
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
Subjects: Nightingale, Florence, -- 1820-1910 -- Childhood and youth; Nightingale, Florence, -- 1820-1910 -- Family; Nurses -- Great Britain -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Previously published: New York : Ballantine Books, c2004.  With new reader's guide

Includes bibliographical references (p. 466-514) and index
Table of contents: title: Entails and abolitionists; title: One big happy family; title: Wen and Fanny, Ben and Anne, Sam and Mai; title: Lea Hurst and Embley; title: A privileged Victorian childhood; title: In father's library; title: Doing Europe in style; title: Coming out; title: Problems with the Nicholsons; title: Mrs. Nightingale says no; title: Florence Nightingale is tempted; title: De Profundis Clamavi Domine; title: Breaking free; title: Managing Harley Street; title: Britain goes to war; title: Steeped up to our necks in blood; title: Woman trouble; title: Spring at last; title: In the Crimea; title: Living to fight their cause; title: Family matters