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Florence Nightingale : the making of an icon / Mark Bostridge.
Barbara Bates Center for History of Nursing - Fagin Hall 2U RT37.N5 B67 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bostridge, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
- Nightingale, Florence.
- Nurses--England--Biography.
- Nurses.
- England.
- United Kingdom.
- Crimean War.
- History of Nursing.
- History, 19th Century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Nurses.
- United Kingdom.
- Crimean War.
- History of Nursing.
- History, 19th Century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 646 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
- Summary:
- The common soldier's savior, the standard-bearer of modern nursing, a pioneering social reformer: Florence Nightingale belongs to that select band of historical characters who are instantly recognizable. Home-schooled, bound for the life of an educated Victorian lady, Nightingale scandalized her family when she found her calling as a nurse, a thoroughly unsuitable profession for a woman of her class. As the "Lady with the Lamp," ministering to the wounded and dying of the Crimean War, she offers an enduring image of sentimental appeal. In the first major biography of Florence Nightingale in more than fifty years, Mark Bostridge draws on a wealth of unpublished material, including previously unseen family papers, to throw new light on this extraordinary woman's life and character. Disentangling elements of myth from the reality, Bostridge has written a vivid and readable account of one of the most iconic figures in modern history.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Daughter of England 1820-54
- 1 The Ridiculous Name of Nightingale 3
- 2 Pop and Flo 23
- 3 Pink Satin Ghosts 56
- 4 This Loathsome Life 88
- 5 To Be Happy in My Own Way 112
- 6 Your Vagabond Son 142
- 7 Unloving Love 161
- 8 In the Hey-day of My Power 188
- Part 2 Lady with the Lamp 1854-6
- 9 Calamity Unparalleled 215
- 10 A Visible March to Heaven 251
- 11 I Shall Never Forget 278
- Part 3 Mother of the Army 1856-71
- 12 A Turbulent Fellow 303
- 13 Thorn in the Flesh 324
- 14 Dying by Inches 347
- 15 Philomela 383
- 16 A Crying Evil 417
- Part 4 Queen of Nurses 1871-1910
- 17 Taking Charge 443
- 18 A Taste of Heaven in Daily Life 464
- 19 Battle of the Nurses 483
- 20 Lustre on the Name 508
- Part 5 Icon
- 21 A Hard Nut to Crack 523.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780374156657
- 0374156654
- OCLC:
- 216941698
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