Florence Nightingale
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Doctors, Physicians, Nurses, Humanitarian Aid, Disaster Relief
- Curriculum: Women’s History, 20th & 21st Century European History, 19th Century European History, British History
Article abstract: Following a deeply rooted passion to serve God and combining it with a strong will and intellect, Nightingale revolutionized the nursing profession and the design and conditions of medical care and hospital facilities.
Early Life
On May 12, 1820, Florence Nightingale was born in and named for the romantic city of Florence, Italy. Her mother, Frances (Fanny) Nightingale, thirty-two, was a socially ambitious and strong-willed woman; her father, William Edward Nightingale, twenty-five, was a scholarly and liberal Cambridge man. Florence...
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