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Cassandra : an essay / by Florence Nightingale ; with an introd. by Myra Stark and an epilogue by Cynthia MacDonald.
Holman Biotech Commons HQ1599.E5 N54 1979
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History of Nursing.
- Women.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- England.
- Social history.
- Women--history.
- Women--psychology.
- Women--England--Social conditions--19th century.
- Women--England--History--19th century.
- Women--Psychology.
- Upper class--England--History.
- Upper class.
- Medical Subjects:
- History of Nursing.
- England.
- Social history.
- Women--history.
- Women--psychology.
- Penn Provenance:
- Auerbach, Nina, 1943- (former owner) (Libra Rare copy)
- Auerbach, Nina, Estate of (donor) (Libra Rare copy)
- Physical Description:
- 60 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Old Westbury, N.Y. : Feminist Press, [1979]
- Summary:
- ??The world knows Florence Nightingale as "the lady with the lamp"-the revered founder of nursing as a respectable profession for women. But few people are aware that Nightingale's career began only after years of struggle to free herself from her suffocating Victorian family. In this surprisingly passionate feminist essay (a "brilliant polemic," states Martha Vicinus), Nightingale denounces the lives of idleness she and other women of??her class were forced to lead.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Libra Rare copy presented to the Penn Libraries by the estate of Nina Auerbach in 2017.
- Libra Rare copy has underlining and ms. notes.
- ISBN:
- 091267055X
- OCLC:
- 5196868
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