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This is the first, full-length biography of Florence Nightingale told from a post-feminist perspective. Born into Victorian Britain's elite, a brilliant, magnetic teenager decided to devote her life to the indigent sick by becoming a nurse. Florence's family, especially her mother, opposed the decision, yet Nightingale insisted. Catapulted into the Crimean War, she brought order to the chaos of British military hospitals, but she could never forget her patients. Despite debilitating illness, she focused on preventing another Crimean calamity: the death of thousands due to avoidable causes. Hygienic army installations, sanitation for India, and creation of modern nursing owe much to Florence Nightingale. To Victorians, she personified their ideal of nurturing female. Hindsight provides a wider perspective. By creating a career for women that empowered them with economic independence, Florence Nightingale stands among the founders of modern feminism.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. The Child Is Mother of the Woman
2. Seesaw
3. "My little plan"
4. "Idol of the man I adored"
5. A Taste of Freedom
6. The Penultimate Battle
7. The Prison Called Family
8. Harley Street
9. "There is but one person in England"
10. "The kingdom of hell"
11. "These gigantic hospitals"
12. Unparalleled Calamity
13. Balaclava Spring
14. Contest for the Crimea
15. Victory
16. "I can never forget"
17. The Royal Commission
18. "The welfare and efficiency of the British Army"
19. Annus Horribilis
20. "How People May Live and Not Die in India"
21. Nursing
22. Family Matters
23. "The People of India"
24. "The love that is so broad"
25. "A blessed life"
Afterword
Chapter Notes
Select Bibliography
Index