Nightingales - Florence and Her Family (Hardcover)


Florence Nightingale is history's most famous nurse, the epitome of gentle, nurturing femininity. But behind the public image of 'The Lady With the Lamp' was a brilliant, combative, complicated woman, struggling to escape a web of social prejudice and familial expectations. From girlhood, Florence wanted to dedicate her life to nursing in public hospitals, even though nursing was then work done only by women of the lowest classes. Florence's family - her father WEN, her mother Fanny, her elder sister Parthenope - were determined to stop her. Eventually Florence had her way, and her nursing mission took her to the filthy, disease-ridden military hospitals of Scutari and Balaclava. Her work during the Crimean War made her an international heroine, and thereafter she wielded an influence over public health policy that was unparalleled for a woman of the time. Radical in her ideas, eccentric in her way of life, Florence was often at war with her family, but love and loyalty always triumphed in the end. The other three Nightingales adored and criticised her, understood and misread her, supported and thwarted her, defined and were defined by her. Nightingales brings the dynamic and compl

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Florence Nightingale is history's most famous nurse, the epitome of gentle, nurturing femininity. But behind the public image of 'The Lady With the Lamp' was a brilliant, combative, complicated woman, struggling to escape a web of social prejudice and familial expectations. From girlhood, Florence wanted to dedicate her life to nursing in public hospitals, even though nursing was then work done only by women of the lowest classes. Florence's family - her father WEN, her mother Fanny, her elder sister Parthenope - were determined to stop her. Eventually Florence had her way, and her nursing mission took her to the filthy, disease-ridden military hospitals of Scutari and Balaclava. Her work during the Crimean War made her an international heroine, and thereafter she wielded an influence over public health policy that was unparalleled for a woman of the time. Radical in her ideas, eccentric in her way of life, Florence was often at war with her family, but love and loyalty always triumphed in the end. The other three Nightingales adored and criticised her, understood and misread her, supported and thwarted her, defined and were defined by her. Nightingales brings the dynamic and compl

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Imprint

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

August 2004

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Dimensions

240 x 161mm (L x W)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

400

ISBN-13

978-0-340-82302-6

Barcode

9780340823026

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LSN

0-340-82302-X



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