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The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 1 of 2 — Edward Tyas, Sir Cook

The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 1 of 2

Edward Tyas, Sir Cook

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  • Book language: English
  • 573 pages

The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 1 of 2 is a historical biography by Sir Edward Cook, first published in 1913, covering the years 1820–1861. Drawing on Nightingale's own papers and letters, it follows her upbringing, her calling to nursing, and her public work up to the early 1860s. It offers a detailed portrait of a Victorian reformer and the era she helped shape.

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THE LIFE OF

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

MACMILLAN AND CO., LƗƽƗǵŧŠ

LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA

MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO

DALLAS · SAN FRANCISCO

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LǵŠ.

TORONTO

see caption

Mrs. Nightingale and her daughters

1828

from a water-colour drawing in the possession of Mrs. Cunliffe

THE LIFE

OF

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

BY

SIR EDWARD COOK

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I

(1820–1861)

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON

1913

COPYRIGHT

PREFACE

Men and women are divided, in relation to their papers, into hoarders and scatterers. Miss Nightingale was a hoarder, and as she lived to be 90 the accumulation of papers, stored in her house at the time of her death, was very great. The papers referring to years up to

1861 had been neatly done up by herself, and it was evident that not everything had been kept. After that date, time and strength to sort and weed had been wanting, and Miss Nightingale seems to have thrown little away. Even soiled sheets of blotting-paper, on which she had made notes in pencil, were preserved. By a Will executed in 1896 she had directed that all her letters, papers, and manuscripts, with some specific exceptions, should be destroyed. By a Codicil executed in the following year she revoked this direction, and bequeathed the letters, papers, and manuscripts to her cousin, Mr. Henry Bonham

Carter. After her death the papers were sorted chronologically by his direction, and they have formed the principal foundation of this

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Contents

  1. THE LIFE OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
  2. PREFACE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. INTRODUCTORY
  6. PART I ASPIRATION (1820–1854)
  7. PART II THE CRIMEAN WAR (1854–1856)
  8. PART III FOR THE HEALTH OF THE SOLDIERS (1856–1861)
  9. PART IV HOSPITALS AND NURSING (1858–1861)
  10. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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