Victorian medicine and social reform
Subtitle: Florence Nightingale among the novelists
By: Louise Penner
Series: Nineenth-century major lives and letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780230615953
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: Defending home and country: Florence Nightingale's training of domestic detectives; title: On giving: poor law reform, work, and family in Nightingale, Dickens, and Stretton; title: Competing visions: Nightingale, Eliot, and Victorian health reform; title: Engaging the Victorian reading public: Nightingale and the Madras Famine of 1876; title: Epilogue: Nightingale in the twenty-first century: the legend versus the life.