Nightingales (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Gillian Gill
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
- Setting: England and the Crimea
- Principal Characters: Florence Nightingale, William Smith, Martha Frances Smith, William Edward Nightingale (WEN), Frances Smith Nightingale (Fanny), Mai Shore Smith, Parthenope Nightingale, Mary Clarke (Clarkey), Selina (Sigma) Bracebridge, Sidney Herbert
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, England or English people, Upper classes, Women, Medicine, Reformers, Nursing or nurses, Hospitals, Career women, Great Britain, Victorian era or Victorianism, Crimean War
- Locales: England, Crimea
Biographies of Florence Nightingale have focused on her roles as the heroine of the Crimean War, the organizer of public health reforms, or the founder of modern nursing. What makes this biography different is its focus on Nightingale's multigenerational extended family and the intricate relationships within the Nightingale-Shore-Smith-Nicholson-Bonham Carter clan. Gillian Gill re-creates the Victorian era and the world in which Nightingale lived for modern readers and, in keeping with the subtitle of the book, The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence...
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