Florence Nightingale
Subtitle: the making of an icon
By: Mark Bostridge
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9780374156657
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Nightingale, Florence, -- 1820-1910 ; Nightingale, Florence, -- 1820-1910; Nurses -- England -- Biography; Nurses -- Great Britain -- Biography; Crimean War -- Great Britain; History of Nursing -- Great Britain; History, 19th Century -- Great Britain
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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 In the first major biography of Florence Nightingale in more than fifty years, Mark Bostridge draws on a wealth of unpublished material, including previously unseen family papers, to throw new light on this extraordinary woman's life and character.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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Part one : Daughter of England 1820-54.; title: The ridiculous name of Nightingale; title: Pop and Flo; title: Pink satin ghosts; title: This loathsome life; title: To be happy in my own way; title: Your vagabond son; title: Unloving love; title: In the hey-day of my power; title: Part two : Lady with the lamp 1854-6.; title: Calamity unparalleled; title: A visible march to heaven; title: I shall never forget; title: Part three : Mother of the army 1856-71.; title: A turbulent fellow; title: Thorn in the flesh; title: Dying by inches; title: Philomela; title: A crying evil; title: Part four : Queen of nurses 1871-1910.; title: Taking charge; title: A taste of heaven in daily life; title: Battle of the nurses; title: Lustre on the name; title: Part five : Icon.; title: A hard nut to crack