Florence Nightingale, 1896–1910 (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Cecil Woodham-Smith
- First Published: 1951
- Time of Work: 1820–1910
- Setting: London and the Crimean Peninsula
- Principal Characters: Florence Nightingale, Sidney Herbert, Mary Stanley, Richard Monckton Milnes, William Farr
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Social reform, Nineteenth century, Medicine, Nursing or nurses, Biography, Hospitals, Crimean War, Sanitation
- Locales: London, England, Crimea
Form and Content
Cecil Woodham-Smith’s Florence Nightingale, 1820–1910 is an excellent example of the best combination of historical and biographical study. Woodham-Smith not only tells the life story of one of the great heroines of the nineteenth century but also effectively sets that story into the history of the period. The book follows Nightingale’s career from her struggles to become a nurse, to her enormous success in improving the care of casualties in the Crimean War, to Nightingale’s use of her hero’s status to orchestrate a campaign of sanitation and...
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