Florence Nightingale (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jeannette Covert Nolan
- First Published: 1946
- Time of Work: 1833–1910
- Setting: Jermyns, Lea Hurst, and Embley Park, England; Italy; France; Germany; London; Turkey; and the Crimea, Russia
- Principal Characters: Florence Nightingale, Parthe Nightingale, William Shore Nightingale, Charles, Elizabeth Fry, Mary Clarke, Benjamin Jowett, Sidney Herbert, Dr. John Sutherland, Pastor Theodor Fliedner
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Social reform, Nineteenth century, Medicine, Nursing or nurses, Biography, Hospitals, Crimean War, Sanitation
- Locales: France, England, London, England, Germany, Italy, Crimea, Turkey
Form and Content
A partially fictionalized narrative, Jeannette Covert Nolan’s Florence Nightingale recounts a remarkable woman’s effort to find a calling worthy of her talents in an era when the social conventions of her class sought to preclude such independence. Sensitive, intelligent, cultivated, and the child of a caring, privileged family, Nightingale was nearly suffocated by the limitations of her environment. Not until her early thirties was she able to dedicate her abilities to what then was regarded as the inferior occupation of nursing.
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