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Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4]
Movement: Victorian art: ... Rae was a supporter of feminism and women's suffrage. ... Her 1891 painting Miss Nightingale at Scutari (1854), of Florence Nightingale, ...
Frances Balfour (1858–1931) – president of the National Society for Women's Suffrage; Florence Balgarnie (1856–1928) – suffragette, speaker, pacifist, feminist, temperance activist; Norah Balls (1886–1980) - Suffragette, women’s right campaigner, magistrate and councillor, co-founder of the Girl Guides movement in Northumberland.
The West Sussex institution still retains some purple colour in its academic dress code to reference the movement. A view of the signature of Florence Nightingale (Andrew Matthews/PA)
At the commencement of World War I, the suffragette movement in Britain moved away from suffrage activities and focused on the war effort, and as a result, hunger strikes largely stopped. [69] In August 1914, the British Government released all prisoners who had been incarcerated for suffrage activities on an amnesty, [ 70 ] with Pankhurst ...
This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.
The women's right to vote, with its legislative representation, represented a paradigm shift where women would no longer be treated as second-class citizens without a voice. The women's suffrage campaign is the most deeply embedded campaign of the past 250 years. [127] [dubious – discuss] At first, suffrage was treated as a lower priority.
She left teaching and trained as a nurse under the Florence Nightingale system. [1] [2] [3] As a nurse she joined Josephine Butler’s campaign against the Contagious Disease Acts in both Britain and New Zealand. [4] [3] In 1878, Sievwright emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, initially staying with her brother-in-law.