Nightingales
Subtitle: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: September 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780345451880
Subjects: Medical - Nurses; Historical - British; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Women's Studies - General; History; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Historical - General
First sentence: To get the measure of our four Nightingales, we need to go back to the time before Victoria became Regina and find the source of their wealth, their class identity, their social confidence, their philanthropic energy, their political influence, and their neuroses.