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This biography was published in 1913.

Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (1820-1910) was an English
nurse, writer and statistician.She came to prominence during
the Crimean War for her pioneering work in nursing, and was
dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making
rounds at night to tend injured soldiers.Nightingale laid the
foundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in
1860, of her nursing school at St. Thomas' Hospital in London,
the first secular nursing school in the world.The Nightingale
Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour, and
the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the
world on her birthday.*
*....summary from wikipedia

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Excerpts from the book:

While Florence Nightingale and her sister were working hard
at history and languages and all useful feminine arts, romping
in the sunny Hampshire gardens, or riding amongst the Derby-
shire hills, the big world outside their quiet paradise was heap-
ing fuel for the fires of war, which at last, when after a quarter
of a century it flared up out of its long-prepared combustibles,
was "to bring to death a million workmen and soldiers, consume
vast wealth, shatter the framework of the European system,
and make it hard henceforth for any nation to be safe except
by sheer strength."And above all its devastation, remembered
as a part of its undying record, the name of one of these
happy children was to be blazoned on the page of history.
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There was no washing, no clean linen.Even for bandages the
shirts had to be stripped from the dead and torn up to stanch
the wounds of the living.

And there were other foul conditions which only the long
labour of sanitary engineering could cure.

The arrival day by day of more and more of the wounded
has been described as an avalanche.We all know Tennyson's
"Charge of the Light Brigage": that charge occurred at Balaclava
the day before Miss Nightingale left England.And the terrible
battle of Inkermann was fought the day after she arrived at
Scutari.

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Before ten days had passed, she had her kitchen ready and
was feeding 800 men every day with well-cooked food, and
this in spite of the unforeseen and overwhelming numbers in
which the new patients had been poured into the hospitals
after Balaclava and Inkermann.She had brought out with
her, in the Fectis, stores of invalid food, and all sorts of little
delicacies surprised the eyes and lips of the hitherto half-
starved men.Their gentle nurses brought them beef tea,
chicken broth, jelly.They were weak and in great pain, and
may be forgiven if their gratitude was, as we are told, often
choked with sobs.
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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.

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Each title is a biography of one person's life, achievements and the problems they faced. The series covers many historical periods from the Tudors to the Victorians. Each title answers key questions about these historical figures and a time line places the person in a historical content. With 'It's true' panels to give interesting and unusual facts about these people as well as many places to visit for children to find out more, this series is packed with information. ... Read more

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Florence Nightingale
I bought this to use in my 6th grade reading classroom. It is excellent to use to teach reading skills such as main idea, author's purpose, or summarizing. I put it in a center and students have 10 minutes to use the book for an assignment. Since it is at a lower reading level, students have success in building skills to use in higher level texts.

This book is a good addition to the grade 1-6 classroom library. ... Read more

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An excellent read
As a nurse I studied Florence Nightingale and her philosophy of nursing.I never knew that she had taken nuns with her to thebattlefields.
I had purchased the book for my granddaughter, but I read it myself and enjoyed it immensely. ... Read more

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Thrilling adventure stories introducing young readers (ages 8-12) to Christian heroes of the past.

After their father dies, Robbie Robinson and his older brother, Peter, join the British army in order to make a living for their family. At first, army life is exciting, even fun. Then in 1854, they are sent to Russia to fight in the Crimean War Peter as a member of the famous Light Horse Brigade and twelve-year-old Robbie as a drummer boy. But the brothers are separated during the doomed charge of the Light Brigade, and Robbie fears for Peter's life.

An injury to his left hand brings Robbie to Barracks Hospital in Scutari, Turkey, where he hopes to find Peter. Instead he meets Florence Nightingale, a nurse working hard to change for the better the way nurses do their jobs. Robbie becomes Florence's "right-hand man," running errands, delivering messages, and reporting alarming hospital conditions to her. But the doctors and officers running the hospital want to put a stop to Florence's improvements. Will Robbie and his friend find a way to succeed in spite of the challenges?

Soldiers are dying all around him, and only Florence Nightingale can help save them!

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The first modern nurse--Florence Nightingale
I strongly recommend this book. This is a great book about a boy in the Crimean War who helped Florence Nightingale.This book makes you want to read more and more!It is one of the best books I have ever read--I was really inspired by the love and care that Florence Nightingale gave to the wounded and sick soldiers. It was kind of bloody in places, but it makes you pray and feel sorry for the bad conditions they were in. I have read most of the Trailblazer books, and this one is my favorite! ... Read more

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This is a much revised and expanded edition of Hugh Small's Florence Nightingale, Avenging Angel (1998), the book that first revealed the historic cover-up that had prevented Florence Nightingale from telling us what really happened in her Crimean War hospitals. This new edition subverts Nightingale's emotionally repressed image by revealing that she had a romantic entanglement during the war, which had historic consequences for her country. Hugh Small's new research also sheds light on the source of her power over politicians, which made her a Cabinet Minister for a whole decade when history says that such a thing was impossible for a woman. He shows for the first time how her leadership of the public health movement made a huge contribution to the unprecedented rise in life expectancy in Britain.Nightingale is one of history's most enigmatic and controversial figures, a polymath whose combination of boundless energy and chronic illness has confounded biographers. Small debunks the latest conventional wisdom - based on a misreading of technical literature - that a chronic infection caused her to be depressed. Such theories of mental aberration marginalise Nightingale and conveniently avoid controversial analysis of her greatest achievements, which go completely against the grain of history as it is taught. ... Read more

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Born into a wealthy family, Florence Nightingale could have lived a life of leisure and luxury. Instead she longed to be a nurse. In 1830, that was the last thing a rich girl could do - but Florence was no ordinary girl. Ages 7-11. ... Read more

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Introduce young readers to great historical figures! Learn about major life events, from childhood to adult years. A time line in each book captures important details, one event at a time, culminating in a complete summary on the final page. ... Read more

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Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is a book first published by Florence Nightingale in 1859. A 136-page volume, it was intended to give hints on nursing to those entrusted with the health of others. Florence Nightingale stressed that it was not meant to be a comprehensive guide from which to teach one's self to be a nurse but to help in the practice of treating others.In her introduction to the 1974 edition, Joan Quixley, then head of the Nightingale School of Nursing, wrote that despite the passage of time since Notes on Nursing was published, "the book astonishes one with its relevance to modern attitudes and skills in nursing, whether this be practised at home by the 'ordinary woman', in hospital or in the community. The social, economic and professional differences of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in no way hinder the young student or pupil from developing, if he or she is motivated to do so, its unchanged fundamentals by way of intelligent thought and practice". "With its mid-nineteenth century background of poverty, neglect, ignorance and prejudice the book was a challenge to contemporary views of nursing, of nurses and of the patient". "The book was the first of its kind ever to be written. It appeared at a time when the simple rules of health were only beginning to be known, when its topics were of vital importance not only for the well-being and recovery of patients, when hospitals were riddled with infection, when nurses were still mainly regarded as ignorant, uneducated persons. The book has, inevitably, its place in the history of nursing, for it was written by the founder of modern nursing". ... Read more

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Draws on research by army historians to describe the cover-up of disastrous events in the Crimea, and to seperate Nightingale's real achievments from her mythical ones. ... Read more

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Illuminating story of the lady of the lamp
This biography of Florence Nightingale is a detailed and well-written story of one of the world's most remarkable women.

Florence Nightingale was born into an English aristocratic family.She was spoiled and difficult, yet had a sense early in her life that she had been picked by God to do something special.Against her family's wishes she went into nursing, then an activity mostly practiced by prostitutes and drunkards.She trained in a Protestant institution in Germany, a Catholic one in France, and then directed a London home for distressed gentlewomen.In 1851 she went to the Crimea where she became the famous and romanticized "lady of the lamp".

When she returned from the Crimea she continued to work, building on her discoveries of gross inefficiency in the administration of the army hospitals.She toiled at the task of reorganizing delivery of health care in the British army.She directed efforts to improve sanitation in India, and for several decades was the expert on questions of health in India, although she never actually left England again.She was an ongoing consultant on hospital construction.She established a nursing school.In middle age she declared herself to be an individual and rarely left her bedroom.Nevertheless she continued her (almost) Sisyphean labors and wrote many books and reports on matters of public health and nursing.

She was in no sense the sweet, gentle person that people imagined the "lady of the lamp" to be.She was bad tempered and dictatorial.She was deeply attached to morality and authority.Although she did much to make nursing a profession, she was not interested in womens rights and opposed the idea of female suffrage. She never accepted the germ theory (a new idea in the 1870's), although she was always a supporter of ventilation (even when it was not helpful, as in India).

Nevertheless, she had the intellectual flexibility to understand quickly the enormous importance of statistics to public health.She may have been the first person to use pictorial descriptions of statistics.She established, using statistics again, the connection between high volumes of births and maternal mortality.

This is a long book.In his essay on Florence Nightingale Lytton Strachey covers the same material in a much briefer manner.Yet Woodham Smiths extensive descriptions of Nightingale's tenacious work with royal commissions, the repeated struggles with bureaucracies and the vulnerability of her work to changes of government convey to the reader the magnitude of her work.It seems fitting that Nightingale's strength and perseverance be documented in great detail and that the reader spend many hours with Woodham Smith in reviewing Nightingale's Herculean efforts to clean out the Augean stables of bureaucratic neglect.Wandering easily through Strachey's breezy and ironic prose doesn't convince the reader of Nightingale's fortitude.

A major reason for the appeal of this book is the wit of Nightingale herself and her many correspondents.Woodham-Smith quotes liberally from much of her copious correspondence, much of which is pithy and amusing.She was bitter, whiny, full of self-pity, and hyperbolic in a way that makes for wonderful reading.As she grew older she became more gracious, but still retained a sharp pen.

Highly recommended for those with an interest in the history of medicine and nursing, the Crimean war, and the development of England's military and medical institutions. ... Read more

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This is a concise, yet scholarly view of Florence Nightingale's extraordinary life and career that gets to the heart of her range of interests and achievements. Florence Nightingale is one of the most famous figures in modern history. Yet much of what we know of her emanates from unreliable second-hand accounts, and from a misreading of the primary sources. "Florence Nightingale at First Hand" by Lynn McDonald, editor of "Nightingale's Collected Works", and the world's foremost Nightingale authority, aims to put this right. This is a book which reports what Florence Nightingale said and did, based on her writing, of which a massive amount survives, scattered in over two hundred archives throughout the world. Published to commemorate the centenary of Nightingale's death, McDonald's study presents a Florence Nightingale for the twenty-first century, as an author of great style and wit, a systems thinker and pioneering public health reformer--the heroine and nurse were only the start. ... Read more

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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ff AS SEEN IN HER PORTRAITS By MAUDE E. SEY~[oUR ABBOTT, B.A., M.D. McGill Unive·rsitl/, Montt·cal. INTRODUCTORY. IT is nearly three quarters of a century since the name of Florence Nightingale first thrilled through Europe, plunged in the horrors of the terrible Crimean War. The details of bel' great and beneficent achievement have been forgot~ ten by many, and in their full extent, indeed, have only been known by very few. Yet her name remains as a household word among us, breathing always the charm diffused by a life -consecrated to high ideals, and symbolizing to us the power to move mountains of the passion": ate womanly sympathy, discerning judgment, and magnificent organizing genius, which together made her at once the Crimean heroine and the grea t reformer of military hygiene of the Victorian Age. Today we are again plunged into a ·war which has become even more terrible than any in the past, in consequence of the refincments of so

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTORY; 'PH"! POR'rICAITS ?????????????????????? G; [ The Chlldhood of l<'lol'enc{~ Nightingale 9·; 18~O -1835; Plutes I, 11; II Girlhood and Early Womnnhood; 1835 -1853; Plates III, n', V, VL; III The l'erlod of the Crimean War; October, 1854 - August, 1856; Plate YII; 11; 'l'hc Xiylttil1ualc's Ueturn 37; 1Y The Period Immediately }i'ollowing the; Crimean 'War; 1856 ·lSQl; Plll tes Y 11 [, IX, X, XI; 41; V li'}I)l'euce Xlght luga}(l In La ter Life ?? 57; 1861 -1910; PlatE's XII, XI II, XlV, XV; BIHLlO(;l!AI'U Y; ~Ii~~ XighUngale's WJ'itillg~ 71; Wrlting/': about ~liss Xj/:!,htlJl~1I1e j!)

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Florence Nightingale is one of the most famous figures in modern history, yet questions have been raised as to her real achievements. Much of what we know of her emanates from unreliable second-hand accounts and from a misreading of the primary sources.

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A must for anyone studying medical history
One nurse made a major difference in the way health care worked. "Florence Nightingale at First Hand" discusses the writings of Nightingale, a nurse credited with much of the reform of public health throughout the nineteenth century, an era where much of medical practice proved highly outdated, centuries old. Looking at first hand accounts, "Florence Nightingale at First Hand" is a must for anyone studying medical history.
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For Florence Nightingale (1820--1910), following Christ's example of service meant tending to the medical needs of the sick and injured. The famous "Lady with the Lamp," one of the most influential women of nineteenth-century England, is generally considered the founder of modern nursing. The best-known aspect of her life--nursing wounded soldiers at Scutari Hospital in Turkey during the Crimean War--comprised, in fact, a very small part of her fifty-year career, but provided the springboard from which it all began. Her good deeds to "the least of these" helped elevate nursing to the respectable profession it is today. ... Read more

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THAT'S THE LADY, BUT WHERE'S HER LAMP?
The name of this book remains the sweetest part of it. I am sorry to say that Sam Wellman did not impress me with his story. The 208 pages he wrote were dull and dragging. It is a far cry from the thriller I expected. His account of Nightingale's early life was okay; but that of her later nursing career, which brought her prominence, was not well relayed. His book has a fine topic, but lacked the type of presentation I expected. I think that Val Webb did a better job in his book, (with similar title).

Fascinating woman, so-so book
Florence Nightingale was a nurse during the Crimean War of the 1850s. She had great compassion for the wounded British soldiers. They called her "The Lady with the Lamp" because she roamed the military hospital corridors through the night, ministering at the bedside of the wounded. She labored hard to make the hospitals more sanitary.

But she was not well liked by the hospital staff, who thought she was meddling. And questioning their professionalism. But to many in England, (especially the soldiers) she was a heroine.

But I'm sorry to say that this book is not the greatest. it spends way too much time discussing how she wrestled with God;s will for her life. And not enough time on her powerful work on behalf of the soldiers. By the time I was halfway through the book, I was thinking, "OK, when is this going to get interesting?" The book becomes more interesting over the latter half. But it totally glosses over the last 50 years of her life. So I would have to recommend that you start elsewhere to learn about Miss Nightingale. ... Read more