Florence Nightingale's European travels / Lynn McDonald, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.

Contributor:

McDonald, Lynn, 1940-

Series:

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910. Works ; 7.

The collected works of Florence Nightingale ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910--Travel--Europe.

Nightingale, Florence.

Nurses--England--Biography.

Nurses.

Women social reformers--England--Biography.

Women social reformers.

Europe--Description and travel.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (823 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This seventh volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale consists of letters, observations, and notes from Florence Nightingale's many trips to Europe, beginning with a family journey when she was a teenager. It includes annotations she made on opera libretti from her ""music mad"" phase and her winter in Rome (1847-48) which were so important in shaping her liberal politics and support for independence movements. Her letters and notes from Greece and central Europe in 1850, and her Kaiserswerth stay in 1851, reveal her developing ideas on social reform, as well as her f

Contents:

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Dramatis Personae; List of Illustrations; Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life; Introduction to Volume 7; Key to Editing; European Trip, 1837-39; Travels in France and Italy, 1847-48; Greece, 1850; Travels En Route to Kaiserswerth, 1850; Kaiserswerth; Travels in England, Scotland and Ireland; Paris Visit, 1853; Epilogue; Appendix: Biographical Sketches; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. 777-779.

ISBN:

9786610280605

9781280280603

1280280603

9780889209336

0889209332

9781417563975

1417563974

OCLC:

753479546