Florence Nightingale

Nightingale, Florence - 1820–1910, English nurse, the founder of modern nursing, b. Florence, Italy. Her life was dedicated to the care of the sick and war wounded. In 1844, she began to visit hospitals; in 1850, she spent some time with the nursing Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul in Alexandria; and a year later she studied at the institute for Protestant deaconesses in Kaiserswerth Read More...

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Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family
by Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale. 907 pgs.

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Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family introduces the Collected Works by giving an overview of Nightingale's life and the faith that guided it and by outlining the main social reform concerns on which she worked from her 'call to service' at age sixteen to old age. This volume reports correspondence (selected from the thousands of surviving letters) with her mother, father and sister and a wide extended family. There is material on Nightingale's 'domestic arrangements', from recipes, cat care and relations with servants to her contributions to charities, church and social reform causes. Much new and original material comes to light, and a remarkably different portrait of Nightingale, one with a more nuanced view of her family relationships, emerges.

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The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

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Acknowledgments

Dramatis Personae

List of Illustrations

Introduction to the Collected Works

An Outline of Florence Nightingale's Life

Themes

Key to Editing

Family Life

Letters To, from and About Nightingale's Immediate Family

Letters To, from and About Nightingale's Extended Family

Domestic Arrangements

Appendixs

Appendix A: Biographical Sketches

Appendix B: the Rise and Fall of Florence Nightingale's Reputation

Appendix D: Florence Nightingale's Last Will and Codicils

Appendix E: Research Methods and Sources

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index

Index
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An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing ("Florence Nightingale: Woman and Myth" begins on p. 35)
by Robert Dingwall, Anne Marie Rafferty, Charles Webster. 256 pgs.

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Acknowledgements

Glossary of Abbreviations

Chapter One: Nurses and Servants

Chapter Two: The Revolution in Nursing

Chapter Three: The New Model Nurse

Chapter Four: Making the Myths

Chapter Five: The Search for Unity

Chapter Six: The Nationalization of Nursing

Chapter Seven: Mental Disorder and Mental Handicap

Chapter Eight: Midwifery

Chapter Nine: District Nursing and Health Visiting

Chapter Ten: Professional Autonomy and Economic Constraints

Notes

References

Index
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Essays on Women, Medicine and Health (Discussion of Florence Nightingale begins on p. 96)
by Ann Oakley. 302 pgs.

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This collection of essays brings together the best of Oakley's work on the sociology of women's health. It focuses on four main themes - divisions of labour, motherhood, technology and methodology - and considers what it is to be women facing the often impersonal world of twentieth-century medicine.

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Acknowledgements

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Introduction

Part I Divisions of Labour

1 Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper

2 The Limits of the Professional Imagination

3: The Doctor's Problem

4 On the Importance Of Being a Nurse

5: 'Consumerism' and the Future of the Perinatal Health Services

6 Who Cares for Women? Science and 'Love' in Midwifery Today

Part II Motherhood

7 The Cries and Smiles of Babies

8: Promoting the Health of Childbearing Women

9 Perinatal Mortality -- Whose Problem?

10 Birth as a 'Normal' Process

11: The Changing Social Context of Maternity Care

Part III Technology

12: The China Syndrome

13 Technologies of Procreation Hazards for Women and the Social Order?

14 A History Lesson Ultrasound in Obstetrics

15 Tamoxifen -- in Whose Best Interests?

Part IV: Methodology

16: Ways of Knowing Feminism and the Challenge to Knowledge

17 Interviewing Women A Contradiction in Terms?

18: Some Problems of the Scientific Research Method and Feminist Research Practice

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Index
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New Light on the Lady with the Lamp: Susan-Mary Grant Looks at Florence Nightingale's Influence on Medical Care in the Crimea and the US Civil War, in History Today
by Susan-Mary Grant. 7 pgs.

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Nursing and Social Change (Chap. 9 "The Influence of Florence Nightingale")
by Monica E. Baly. 397 pgs.

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Preface to the Third Edition

Chapter 1: Social Change and Attitudes to Care

Further Reading

Chapter 2: Change and Care Before the Reformation

Chapter 3: The Sixteenth-Century Transition

Chapter 4: New Approaches to Care

Chapter 5: The Growth of Hospitals in Eighteenth-Century England

Chapter 6: The Deserving and the Undeserving Poor

References

Chapter 7: Those of Unsound Mind

References

Chapter 8: Local Government and Sanitary Reform

Chapter 9: The Influence of Florence Nightingale

Chapter 10: Nursing Reforms Extended

References

Chapter 11: Towards a Health Service

References

Chapter 12: Registration and the Growth of Nursing Organisations

Chapter 13: Social Change and Nursing in the Inter-War Years

Chapter 14: The Legacy of the Second World War

References

Chapter 15: The National Health Service

Chapter 16: Adapting Nursing to New Demands

Chapter 17: New Demands on Nursing

Chapter 18: Who Will Nurse the Patients of Tomorrow?

Chapter 19: New Problems for Old in the Community

Chapter 20: Mental Health Nursing—origins and Developments

Chapter 21: Health at Work

Chapter 22: Nurses as Managers

References

Chapter 23: Nursing Education—‘reports Are Not Self-Executive’

Chapter 24: Nursing Research

References

Chapter 25: The Road to Reorganisation

Chapter 26: Nursing, Economic Change and Industrial Relations

References

Chapter 27: The Health Problems of the World

Chapter 28: International and Inter-Regional Organisations

Epilogue

Index
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Nursing, the Finest Art: An Illustrated History ("The Nightingale Revolution" begins on p. 197)
by M. Patricia Donahue. 535 pgs.

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NURSING, THE FINEST ART traces the social, political, and economic history of nursing from its origins through contemporary practice. Designed for nurses in all specialties and settings, this edition includes new material on nurses' involvement in recent world events; more international nursing information; and updated and expanded content on the historical significance of nursing associations. Perfect for all nurses with an interest in the history of their profession and an appreciation of fine artwork. Spanish version of 1st edition also available, ISBN: 84-7592-239-2

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Nursing the Finsest Art: An Illustrated History

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Foreword

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Contents

Unit 1: The Origin of Nursing

Unit 2: Ancient Civilizations

Unit 3: Nursing in a Christian World

Unit 4: Nursing in a Changing World Aristocratic and Military Influences

Unit 5: Nursing in Transition the Dark Period and the Dawn of Modern Times

Unit 6: The Development of Nursing in America

Unit 7: Advancing Joward New Frontiers

Unit 8: Nurses in Action Wars of the Twentieth Century

Unit 9: The Age of Expansion

Unit 10: An Era of Change and Challenge

Unit 11: Contact and Diversity

List of Plates

References

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Florence Nightingale - Fantasy and Fact, in World and I
by Michael Timko. 8 pgs.

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Western Medicine: An Illustrated History (Discussion of Florence Nightingale begins on p. 198)
by Irvine Loudon. 348 pgs.

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Covering all periods from Ancient Greece to the present day, this richly illustrated history of medicine offers information and insight on a wide variety of topics. The great milestones of medical history - among them the discovery of the circulation of the blood, vaccination against smallpox, the invention of the X-ray, the development of penicillin - are charted. They are set against the social context of medicine, with accounts of more neglected areas such as patterns of epidemics, the emergence of the medical profession, the history of nursing, unorthodox medical practice, the spread of western medicine beyond Europe and the US, and the patient's viewpoint. Authoritatively and accessibly written by a team of twenty distinguished medical historians and including a helpful glossary, a chronology, and a full index, this is a fascinating introduction to medicine in the west from its beginnings to the present day.

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Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Colour Plates

List of Contributors

1: Medicine in View: Art and Visual Representation

From the Hippocratic Corpus to Twentieth-Century Medicine

2: Medicine in the Classical World

3: Europe and Islam

4: Medicine in the Latin Middle Ages

5: Medicine and the Renaissance

6: From the Scientific Revolution to the Germ Theory

7: From the Germ Theory to 1945

8: Medicine in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

Medicine in Context

9: The Growth of Medical Education and the Medical Profession

10: The Rise of the Modern Hospital

11: Epidemics and the Geography of Disease

12: Nurses and Ancillaries in the Christian Era

13: Childbirth

14: Children in Hospital

15: Medicine and the Mind

16: The Spread of Western Medicine

17: Unofficial and Unorthodox Medicine

18: Medicine, Politics, and the State

19: The Patient's View

Further Reading

Chronology

Glossary

Illustration Sources

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Eminent Women of the Age: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of the Most Prominent Women of the Present Generation (1869)("Florence Nightingale" begins on p. 11)
by James Parton. 628 pgs.

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List of Engravings.

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Florence Nightingale.

Lydia Maria Child.

Fanny Fern -- Mrs. Parton.

Lydia H. Sigourney.

Mrs. Frances Anne Kemble.

Eugenie, Empress of the French.

Grace Greenwood -- Mrs. LIppincott

Alice and Phebe Cary.

Margaret Fuller Ossoli.

Gail Hamilton -- Miss Dodge.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Jenny LInd Goldschmidt.

Our Pioneer Educators.

Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

The Woman's Rights Movement and Its Champions in the United States.

Victoria, Queen of England.

Eminent Women of the Drama.

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson.

Woman as Physician.

Camilla Urso.

Harriet G. Hosmer.

Rosa Bonheur.

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe.
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Death or Glory: The Legacy of the Crimean War
by Robert B. Edgerton. 288 pgs.

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In 1853, the Crimean War began as an intensely romantic affair. Death or Glory is a narrative immersion into conditions during what became arguably the most tragically botched military campaign in modern European history.

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Death or Glory: The Legacy of the Crimean War

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: The Crimean War

2: The Armies

3: The Generals

4: The "Real" War

5: They Also Served

6: Pride and Prejudice

7: Soldiers in Battle

8: The Many Faces of Men at War

Epilogue

Notes

References

Index
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British Medicine in an Age of Reform (Discussion of Florence Nightingale begins on p. 231)
by Roger French, Andrew Wear. 260 pgs.

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British Medicine in an Age of Reform , charts the nature and dynamics of the radical changes which occurred between 1780 and 1850 - a great turning point in British medicine. Medicine was reformed just as politics was being reformed. It became a recognizable profession, and at the same time there was an impetus from within to base the subject upon science. By the end of the 1850's medicine had become perceptibly 'modern'.Contributions by acknowledged experts cover subjects from Apothecaries' Act of 1815 to froensic medicine, and the effect of scientific medicine on the doctor-patient relationship. Fascinating and detailed, British Medicine in an Age of Reform provides a rich source of information for students of social history, the history of medicine and science, and for those working in the medical profession.

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Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Reforming the Patient in the Age of Reform: Thomas Beddoes and Medical Practice

2: Private Enterprise and Public Interests: Medical Education and the Apothecaries' Act, 1780-1825

3: 'trading Assassins' and the Licensing of Anatomy

4: The Disappearance of the Patient's Narrative and the Invention of Hospital Medicine

5: Robert Carswell and William Thomson at the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyons: Scottish Views of French Medicine

6: The Idea of Science in English Medicine: the 'Decline of Science' and the Rhetoric of Reform, 1815-45

7: Why Were Most Medical Heretics at Their Most Confident Around the 1840s? (The Other Side of Mid-Victorian Medicine)

8: William Brande and the Chemical Education of Medical Students

9: A Scientific Profession: Medical Reform and Forensic Medicine in British Periodicals of the Early Nineteenth Century

10: Religion, Respectability and the Origins of the Modern Nurse

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A Second Treasury of the World's Great Letters: A Mixed Mailbag Including Intimate Exchanges and Cycles of Correspondence by Famed Men and Women of History and the Arts ("Florence Nightingale, Amid the Horrors of the Crimean War, Jolts England With the Facts [A Letter to Sir William Bowman]" begins on p. 421)
by Wallace Brockway, Bart Keith Winer. 692 pgs.

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Part One Letters of Long Ago: [from 49 B.C. to A.D. 1670]

Cicero and Caesar: A Fatal Friendship: [a Series of Letters]

Cicero Trembles for His Life, but is Sustained by the Purity of His Conscience: [a Letter to His Friend Atticus]

Caesar Warns Cicero to Stand Aloof From Civil Strife

Cicero Entertains a Formidable Guest: [a Letter to His Friend Atticus]

Seneca Denounces the Modern Treatment Of Slaves and Urges a Return to The Humane Ways of the Old Romans: [a Letter to His Friend Lucilius]

The Younger Pliny Describes the Death Of His Uncle During an Eruption of Vesuvius: [a Letter to Tacitus]

Lucius Verus Warns Marcus Aurelius Against Treachery, and Marcus Re- Turns a Philosopher's Answer: [an Exchange of Letters]

Saint Patrick Excoriates a Barbaric King For Slaughtering and Enslaving The Christians of Ireland: [a Letter to Coroticus, King of Ail]

Sidonius Limns the Portrait of a Roman Sycophant: [a Letter to His Son Apollinaris]

Dante Alighieri, After Fifteen Years Of Exile, Spurns a "Gracious Recall" To His Native Florence: [a Letter to a Friend]

Petrarch Climbs to the Top of Mont Ven- Toux and Looks Upon the Grandeur Of The Human Soul: [a Letter to Fra Dionisio Roberti]

Catherine of Siena Pleads with the Pope To End the Babylonian Captivity: [a Letter to Gregory Xi]

Joan of Arc, Before the Battle of OrlÉans, Commands the English to Surrender

Pius II Tells Rodrigo Borgia That a Cardinal Should Be Above Reproach

Lorenzo the Magnificent Plays Polonius To His Son: [a Letter to Giovanni De' Medici]

Niccolo Machiavelli Varies the Pleasures Of His Country Exile by Composing The Prince: [a Letter to Francesco Vettori]

Martin Luther Denies That He is a Heretic, But Stands by His Theses: [a Letter to Leo X]

Erasmus Refuses to Write Against Luther And Counsels the Pope to Clean House: [a Letter to Adrian Vi]

Baber, First of the "Moguls," Describes The Failure of an Attempt to Poison Him: [a Letter to a Friend]

The Tragic History Of Mary, Queen of Scots: [a Series of Letters]

Queen Elizabeth Tells James VI of Scotland That She Was Not Responsible for His Mother's "Miserable Accident"

James VI of Scotland Commends Queen Elizabeth's Honorable Behavior

Queen Elizabeth Tells off a Proud Prelate: [a Letter to Dr. Richard Cox]

John Donne Makes Account of His "Planetary and Erratic Fortune": [a Letter to Sir Henry Goodere]

Galileo Observes Marvelous Things in The Heavens: [a Letter to Belisario Vinta]

Dorothy Osborne Envisions a Contented Marriage with Her Lover: [a Letter to Sir William Temple]

Queen Christina of Sweden, Before Renouncing Protestantism, Decides To Abdicate: [a Letter to Pierre Chanut]

Samuel Pepys Recites the Terrors of The Great Plague: [a Letter to Lady Elizabeth Carteret]

Roger Williams, in His Old Age, Expatiates On Tolerance and the Founding Of Rhode Island: [a Letter to a Friend]

Madame De SÉvignÉ Springs a Surprise on A Country Cousin: [a Letter to Monsieur De Coulanges]

Part Two Letters of Not So Long Ago: [from 1704 to 1886]

Marlborough, After the Battle of Blenheim, Rushes News to His Wife

Queen Anne Gives Directions for Her Hus- Band's Funeral: [a Letter to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough]

Jonathan Swift Rallies a Great Patron Of Letters on His Disinterestedness: [a Letter to Lord Halifax]

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Goes to A Turkish Bath in Turkey: [a Letter to a Friend]

Madame Retails the Intrigues and Scan- Dals of the Court of Louis XV: [a Letter to the Raugravine Louisa]

Thomas Gray Outlines a Travel Book That He Never Intends to Write: [a Letter to Thomas Wharton]

Madame De Pompadour Protests to the Pope That She is Now a Good Woman: [a Letter to Benedict Xiv]

Jean Jacques Rousseau and Madame D'Épinay Lay Down Their Rules of Friendship: [an Exchange of Letters]

Catherine the Great Details the Plot That Made Her Empress of Russia: [a Letter to Count Stanislaus Poniatowski]

Laurence Sterne Bids David Garrick Return To the Stage

Samuel Johnson Stands His Ground in Show- Ing Up a Hoax: [a Letter to James Macpherson]

Horace Walpole On Politics and Literature: [a Series of Letters]

Horace Walpole Sees More Than America Lost in the Revolutionary War: [a Letter to Sir Horace Mann]

Horace Walpole Casts a Vote Against The Fame of Samuel Johnson: [a Letter to Miss Berry]

Lafayette, on His Arrival in America, Writes Home of This Veritable Utopia: [a Letter to His Wife]

Alexander Hamilton Deplores the Falling Off of the Character of Congress: [a Letter to George Washington]

Benjamin Franklin Proposes Marriage to A French Widow: [a Letter to Madame HelvÉtius]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Leaves Salzburg in a Fury: [a Letter to His Father]

William Cowper Ponders a Point in Anthro- Pology: [a Letter to the Reverend John Newton]

Gilbert White Writes the Autobiography Of His Pet Tortoise: [a Letter to His Niece]

Ch'Ien Lung, Emperor of China, Refuses Great Britain's Demand for Commercial Concessions: [a Letter to George Iii]

Camille Desmoulins Bids Farewell to His Wife on the Eve of His Execution

Charles Lamb, After His Sister Mary Has Murdered Their Mother, Begs Samuel Taylor Coleridge for the Consolations of Religion: [an Exchange of Letters]

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and Fried- Rich Von Schiller Discuss the Prog- Ress of Faust: [an Exchange of Letters]

William Blake Has an Apocalyptic Vision Of Eternity: [a Letter to John Flaxman]

Charles Lamb Sees Snakes by Candlelight: [a Letter to Thomas Manning]

Toussaint L'Ouverture Commands Ruthless Warfare Against the French Soldiers In Haiti: [a Letter to General Dessalines]

Lord Nelson Sends Emma Hamilton a Last Pledge of Love Before the Battle Of Trafalgar

Two Letters Of Lord Byron: [addressed to Henry Drury and John Cam Hobhouse]

Lord Byron Swims the Hellespont and Rambles on About His Travels: [a Letter to Henry Drury]

Lord Byron Informs a Friend of His Own Death: [a Letter to John Cam Hobhouse]

Madame De StaËl Begs Napoleon to Revoke Her Exile

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Pours Out The Agonies of a Drug Addict: [a Letter to Joseph Cottle]

Dolly Madison Escapes with the State Papers Before the British Capture Washington: [a Letter to Her Sister Anna]

Napoleon, After Waterloo, Asks Sanctuary Of the English: [a Letter to the Prince Regent]

Jane Austen Declines a Royal Invitation To Change Her Style: [a Letter to J. S. Clarke]

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Faced With Debtors' Prison, Begs a Loan: [a Letter to Samuel Rogers]

Sir Walter Scott, Calm and Temperate As Ever, Faces His Financial Ruin: [a Letter to John Gibson Lockhart]

The Love Letters Of Jane Welsh and Thomas Carlyle

Jane Welsh Assures Thomas Carlyle That She Will Be "Really a Very Meek-Tempered Wife"

Thomas Carlyle Vows That They Will Live But for Each Other

John Randolph of Roanoke Writes a Disser- Tation Upon Cold Lamb: [a Letter to John Marshall]

Thomas Carlyle Relates How John Stuart Mill's Carelessness Caused the Destruction of the Manuscript of The French Revolution: [a Letter to His Brother John]

Benjamin Disraeli Gives a Political Opponent Blow for Blow: [a Letter to Daniel O'Connell]

HonorÉ De Balzac, Paying a Visit to George Sand, Finds Her Smoking a Cigar: [a Letter to Madame Hanska]

Thomas De Quincey, Pursued by His Debtors, Goes into Hiding: [a Letter to William Tait]

George Sand Returns to France With Chopin, After a Hectic Winter in Majorca: [a Letter to FranÇois Rollinat]

Edward Fitzgerald Manages to Write a Let- Ter with Two Ideas in It: [a Letter to Frederic Tennyson]

Heinrich Heine Writes the Obituary of The Romanticism of His Age: [a Letter to K. A. Varnhagen Von Ense]

Charlotte BrontË, in a Spirit of Resignation, Tells of the Death of Her Sister Emily: [a Letter to Ellen Nussey]

Giuseppe Garibaldi, Contemptuous of His Countrymen, Yet Writes Hopefully Of Italian Liberation to His Heroic Wife

Jenny Lind Meets with an Astonishing Re- Ception in New York: [a Letter to Her Parents]

Herman Melville, at Work on Moby Dick, Spills Out His Artist's Soul to His Neighbor and Friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Harriet Beecher Stowe Tells the Story Of Her Life: [a Letter to Mrs. Follen]

Florence Nightingale, Amid the Horrors Of the Crimean War, Jolts England With the Facts: [a Letter to Sir William Bowman]

Charles Baudelaire Agonizes Over His Wretched Way of Life and Thwarted Ambitions: [a Letter to His Mother]

Louisa May Alcott Concocts a New Spring Bonnet: [a Letter to Her Sister Anna]

Pages from The War Between the States, Drawn From The Correspondence Of General Mcclellan, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, General Sherman, John Wilkes Booth, And Robert E. Lee: [a Series]

Walt Whitman Finds in the Hospitals Of Washington a Drama Surpassing Any- Thing in Literature: [a Letter to Nat and Fred Gray]

William Tecumseh Sherman Predicts Victory for the North: [a Letter to His Brother John]

John Wilkes Booth States His Case for The South

General Robert E. Lee Bids a Last Farewell To His Army

Bismarck Exults in the German Triumph At Sedan: [a Letter to His Wife]

Henrik Ibsen Discards Outworn Concep Tions of Liberty and Foresees Mighty Revolutions: [a Letter to Georg Brandes]

Gerard Manley Hopkins Muses on the Pains And Pleasures of Vaccination: [a Letter to His Sister Kate]

George Sand Denounces Gustave Flaubert For His Excess of Intellectual Pride And Artist's Snobbery

Thomas Henry Huxley Wishes George Eliot Buried with Peace and Honor, but Not In Westminster Abbey: [a Letter to Herbert Spencer]

Louis Pasteur Announces a "Stunning Success" in His Anthrax Experiments: [a Letter to His Children]

Robert Louis Stevenson, in Rollicking Vein, Tells a Friend That Writing Treasure Island is "Awful Fun": [a Letter to William Ernest Henley]

Julia Ward Howe Insists on Her Christian Duty to Entertain Oscar Wilde: [an Open Letter to the Boston Transcript]

Ivan Turgenev, from His Deathbed, En- Treats Leo Tolstoi to Return to His Literary Work

Anton Chekhov Reproves His Brother Nikolai for His Complete Lack Of Culture

Part Three Letters of Yesterday and Today: [from 1892 to 1941]

John Jay Chapman Writes His Wife a Love Letter

Sir William Osler, in the Guise of His Dead Son, Sends a Report of Life in Heaven

Lafcadio Hearn Contrasts Eastern And Western Concepts of Love: [a Letter to Basil Hall Chamberlain]

Rudyard Kipling Tells William James What Is Wrong with American Civilization

William James Asserts That His Faith is As Robust as Anyone Else's: [a Letter to John Jay Chapman]

Henry Adams, Seven Hundred Years Old, Views the Dawn of the Twentieth Century with a Monkish Eye: [a Letter to John Hay]

Henry James, Most of His Life Gone, Wants To Go on Living and Writing: [a Letter to Henry Adams]

Katherine Mansfield Senses Life: Two Letters

Katherine Mansfield, on an Evening in May, Feels a Little Bit Drunk with Living: [a Letter to S. S. Koteliansky]

Katherine Mansfield, on Another Evening In May, Finds Nothing but Corruption And Loneliness: [a Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell]

Theodore Roosevelt Prescribes a Spartan Regimen for the United States: [a Letter to Mrs. William Brown Meloney]

Rabindranath Tagore, Reaffirming His Faith in the Moral Greatness of Man, Pays Tribute to Mahatma Gandhi: [a Letter to C. F. Andrews]

T. E. Lawrence Lashes Out Savagely Against The Spiritual Failure of Mankind: [a Letter to Lionel Curtis]

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock Discuss Life, Let- Ters, and God: [an Exchange of Letters]

D. H. Lawrence Foresees Germany Retreat- Ing to the Middle Ages: [a Letter to a Friend]

Virginia Woolf Finds She Cannot Go on Any Longer: [a Letter to Her Husband, Leonard Woolf]

An A.R.P. Warden Describes the Hell And Fury of the Bombing of London: [a Letter from Stanley Lupino to His Wife]

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The Great Victorians (1932) ("Florence Nightingale: 1820-1910" begins on p. 319)
by Hugh Massingham. 536 pgs.

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INTRODUCTION

MATTHEW ARNOLD: 1822-1888

GENERAL BOOTH 1829-1912

FRANCIS HERBERT BRADLEY: 1846-1924

CHARLOTTE BRONTË: 1816-1855

EMILY BRONTË: 1818-1848

ROBERT BROWNING 1812-1889

EDWARD BURNE-JONES: 1833-1898

SAMUEL BUTLER: 1835-1902

THOMAS CARLYLE: 1795-1881

RICHARD COBDEN 1804-1865

CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN 1809-1882

CHARLES DICKENS 1812-1870

BENJAMIN DISRAELI 1804-1881

GEORGE ELIOT 1819-1880

EDWARD FITZGERALD 1809-1883

WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE: 1809-1898

WILLIAM GILBERT GRACE: 1848-1915

THOMAS HARDY1: 1840-1928

THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY: 1825-1875

LORD MACAULAY: 1800-1859

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL: 1831-1879

GEORGE MEREDITH: 1828-1909

JOHN STUART MILL: 1806-1873

WILLIAM MORRIS: 1834-1898

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: 1801-1890

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: 1820-1910

LORD PALMERSTON: 1784-1865

WALTER PATER: 1839-1894

COVENTRY PATMORE: 1823-1896

ROBERT PEEL: 1788-1850

CECIL RHODES: 1853-1902

GABRIEL CHARLES DANTE ROSSETTI: 1828-1882

JOHN RUSKIN: 1819-1900

LORD SALISBURY: 1880-1903

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: 1850-1894

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE: 1837-1909

LORD TENNYSON: 1809-1892

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 1811-1868

ANTHONY TROLLOPE: 1815-1882

EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR: 1832-1917
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Doing It Better Than Mother: Liane Aukin Looks at the Private Life of Florence Nightingale, and at How Her Strained Relationship with Her Mother Shaped Her Destiny, in History Today
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Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World (Chap. Two "The Rhetoric of Visible Hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the Popularization of Sanitary Reform")
by Elaine Freedgood. 216 pgs.

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In Victorian Writing about Risk, Elaine Freedgood explores a wide spectrum of once-popular literature, including works on political economy, sanitary reform, balloon flight, and African exploration. The consolations offered by this geography of risk are precariously predicated on the stability of dominant Victorian definitions of people and places. Women, men, the laboring and middle classes, Africa and Africans: all have assigned identities that allow risk to be located and contained. When identities shift and boundaries fail, danger and safety begin to appear in all the wrong places.

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Introduction: the Practice of Paradise

Chapter One: Banishing Panic: J. R. Mcculloch, Harriet Martineau and the Popularization of Political Economy

Chapter Two: The Rhetoric of Visible Hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the Popularization of Sanitary Reform

Chapter Three: Groundless Optimism: Regression in the Service of the Ego, England and Empire in Victorian Ballooning Memoirs

Chapter Four: The Uses of Pain: Cultural Masochism and the Colonization of the Future in Victorian Mountaineering Memoirs

Chapter Five: A Field for Enterprise: the Memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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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

Nice, 1837

Italy, 1838

Geneva

Paris, 1838-39

Recollections of France, 1840s

Travels in France and Italy, 1847-48

France, 1847, En Route to Rome

Rome, Winter of 1847-48

France, 1848, on Return Trom Rome

Letters on Italian and Ausrian Politics

France En Route to Egypt, 1849

Italian Political Personalities: Cavour, Garibaldi and Mazzini

Malta

Later Reminiscences of Italy

Greece, 1850

Later Letters and Notes on Greece

Travels En Route to Kaiserswerth, 1850

Vienna, Prague and Dresden, 1850

Berlin, Hamburg and Pyrmont, 1850

Later Letters and Notes on Germany and Austria

Kaiserswerth

Kaiserswerth, 1850

Kaiserswerth, 1851

Correspondence on Kaiserswerth after the Visits

Death of Pastor Fliedner, Support for Kaiserswerth and Later Reflections

Travels in England, Scotland and Ireland

London, South of England, 1828 To 1840s

Water Cures, Malvern and Umberslade

Other Midlands Travels

Scotland

Ireland, 1852

Elizabeth Herbert (1822-1911)

Paris Visit, 1853

Other Letters and Notes on France

The Channel Tunnel

Epilogue

Sidney Herbert (1810-61)

Appendix: Biographical Sketches

Charles Holte Bracebridge (1799-1872)

Selina Bracebridge (Née Mills) (1800-74)

Bibliography

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