Florence Nightingale

London: The Reprint Society, 1952 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE was born one year after Queen Victoria, the younger daughter of wealthy and possessive parents to whom she was a source of mingled pride and pain for thirty-four years. After that date, pride predominated. Mrs. Woodham-Smith has described with uncommon insight what that life was. Although, on the surface, all in the Victorian home was smoothness and peace, Florence was brought up in a hot-house of emotion. Miss Nightingale grew up in this age, and was indelibly impressed by it. Though her extraordinary mind owed its quality to uncompromising clarity and realism, her character contained the contradiction that she was also emotional, prone to exaggeration, and abnormally sensitive. She had an irrepressible sense of humour, and she was possessed of as much physical as mental courage. It was a tragedy for her that the Call which she heard at the age of seventeen could not be obeyed until she was thirty-four. The dramatic story of her sufferings and successes in the ghastly yellow Barrack Hospital of Scutari has never been told more convincingly. She returned to England, broken in health, but an administrator. More than half a century of life lay before her, but it was from a sick-bed that she was to work for the Army in India, Civilian and Military hospitals, Workhouse Reform, an Army Medical College, and Nursing. ---------- Orders over $100.00 are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: 5" X 7"