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Flight of the wild swan / Melissa Pritchard.
Van Pelt Library PS3566.R578 F58 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pritchard, Melissa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910--Fiction.
- Nightingale, Florence.
- Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
- Nurses--Fiction.
- Nurses.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Biographical fiction
- Fiction
- Novels
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 413 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Bellevue Literary Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From her adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectation, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won celebrity as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art. In lush, lyrical detail, Melissa Pritchard reveals Nightingale as a rebel who wouldn't relent--one whose extraordinary life offers a grand lesson in inspired will"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781954276215
- 1954276214
- OCLC:
- 1372132475
- Publisher Number:
- 99996274420
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