Florence Nightingale

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Standard Name: Nightingale, Florence
Birth Name: Florence Nightingale
Nickname: Flo
Nickname: The Lady-in-Chief
Nickname: The Lady of the Lamp
Nickname: Commander-in-Chief
Nickname: Wild Ass of the Wilderness
FN 's fame began when she headed nurses in the Crimean war. After the war, she worked to reform health care and promoted sanitation at home and abroad. To this end she composed speeches, government reports, statistical analyses, articles, and pamphlets. She travelled extensively in her youth, producing many letters which were later collected and published. She also wrote theology, including the work which contains her feminist fragment Cassandra. Although FN was a versatile, political, and prolific writer (she produced over two hundred literary works during her career), she is remembered almost solely for her nursing work.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996.
166: 268
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of the young Florence Nightingale. She is wearing a simple black dress with lace collar and lace cap, and looking directly into the camera.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Sarah Trimmer
ST 's work made a great impact. She was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers of 1789-90.
Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011–2013, 3 vols.
The young Elizabeth Benger in her Female Geniad, 1791, called ST a successor to Dorothy, Lady Pakington
Literary responses Caroline Clive
Despite the universal opinion that the sequel was decidedly weaker than the original, it nevertheless did well enough to go into several editions. The Saturday Review noted that it was a book which, even if...
Literary responses Harriet Martineau
Maria Edgeworth wrote to HM to express her admiration of The Hour and the Man, and Florence Nightingale said after the author's death that she had read it repeatedly and considered it the finest...
names Buchi Emecheta
  • BirthName: Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta
    Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann, 1994.
    11

  • Nickname: Nnenna
    The name Florence was given to BE by her mother, who remembered the story of Florence Nightingale told to her by missionaries. Her second name Onyebuchi, chosen...
names Florence Farr
  • BirthName: Florence Beatrice Farr
    FF was probably named after her father's friend and colleague Florence Nightingale .

  • Self-constructed: Mary Lester; S. S. D. D.
    The initials refer to her motto when she was a member...
Occupation Monica Dickens
Quite early in 1940 (after a spell as a writer and another collecting scrap iron for armaments) MD joined the Red Cross as a VAD (that is, a Voluntary Aid Detachment volunteer nurse), then became...
Occupation Catherine Marsh
When in early 1854 England and France were in alliance to defend Turkey, and declared war on Russia on 28 March, launching the first Crimean War,
O’Rorke, Lucy. The Life and Friendships of Catherine Marsh. Longmans, Green & Co., 1917.
96
CM immediately set about distributing New Testaments...
Occupation Elizabeth Gaskell
She also corresponded with Florence Nightingale to ask if any of the unemployed women could train as nurses, and solicited donations from philanthropists.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
502, 665n20
Occupation Felicia Skene
Some of these nurses, trained by FS , later went to Crimea with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
politics Fredrika Bremer
On 28 August 1854 the London Times printed a long letter from FB urging the women of all Christian nations to form a world alliance against war, social want, and insecurity. On the centenary of...
politics Jessie White Mario
Lady Shaftesbury served as first president. The association's subscribers included the Duchess of Argyll , Florence Nightingale , and Mrs Gladstone . JWM was living in Italy at the time of the founding.
O’Connor, Maura. The Romance of Italy and the English Political Imagination. St Martin’s Press, 1998.
107
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics Josephine Butler
An early action of the LNA was to publish their petition, or The Ladies' Appeal and Protest, in the Daily News in December 1869, following Harriet Martineau 's letters written as An Englishwoman which...
politics Elizabeth Gaskell
In contrast to her refusal to commit herself publicly on domestic politics, EG supported the struggle for Italian independence. Her name appeared on a petition spearheaded by Florence Nightingale in support of Garibaldi 's troops...
Publishing Anna Brownell Jameson
ABJ prepared two lectures that outlined her feminist principles: Sisters of Charity (1855) and The Communion of Labour (1856).
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997.
238
They took up the issues of female education and employment for women. The lectures were...
Publishing Harriet Martineau
HM furthered Nightingale 's work in other ways too, producing a lengthy piece in the Quarterly Review (seizing the occasion to promote her own earlier Life in the Sick-Room) and a shorter one in...

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