Cassandra and other selections from Suggestions for thought
By: edited by Mary Poovey.
Contributors: Poovey, Mary.
Series: NYU Press women's classics
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Religion; Ethics; Women -- England -- Social conditions; Women -- England -- History -- 19th century; Women -- Psychology
Other titles: Cassandra.
Description: Florence Nightingale (1820-1920) is famous as the heroine of the Crimean War and later as a campaigner for health care founded on a clean environment and good nursing. Though best known for her pioneering demonstration that disease rather than wounds killed most soldiers, she was also heavily allied to social reform movements and to feminist protest against the enforced idleness of middle-class women. This original edition provides bold new insights into Nightingale's beliefs and a new picture of the relationship between feminism and religion. Nightingale argues that work was the means by which every individual sought self-fulfillment and served God. She wrote influentially about the group most Victorians declared to be above work unmarried, middle-class women. Suggestions for Thought to the Searchers after Truth Among the Artisans of England (1860), which contains the novel Cassandra, is a central text in nineteenth-century history of feminist thought and is published here for the first time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-244).