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Florence Nightingale did much more in life that was recognized by the public, and so the relationship between Parthenope and her sister has more frequently been written displaying Florence in a more positive light and Parthenope as more of the evil older sister. [6] Painting of Frances Parthenope and Florence Nightingale.
Florence Nightingale was born on 12 May 1820 into a wealthy and well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia, [9] [10] in Florence, Tuscany, Italy, and was named after the city of her birth. Florence's older sister Frances Parthenope had similarly been named after her place of birth, Parthenope, a Greek settlement now part of the city ...
Mary Bernard Dickson (c.1811 – 5 August 1895) was a New Zealand nun, nurse and teacher.She was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England c.1811. [1] She worked under Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War.
McDonald, Lynn. "Agnes Elizabeth Jones (1832–68)." in Lynn McDonald, ed. Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care. Waterloo ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2004:678.-- McDonald, Lynn. "Workhouse Infirmaries in Nightingale's Day," in Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care 222–308. Memorials of Agnes Elizabeth Jones by Her Sister.
She shared Florence Nightingale's interest in nursing, the two having become friends in 1847, and like Florence Nightingale, was an advocate of the Kaiserswerth plan for a time. [3] However, while Nightingale was initially an admirer of the Sisters of Mercy and later became an admirer of Kaiserswerth, Stanley went the other way and this led to ...
At the request of Bishop Thomas Grant, Moore and four other sisters left London on 17 October 1854 to nurse sick and wounded British Army soldiers in Crimea. [6] Their departure preceded that of Florence Nightingale, but at Grant's request they remained in Paris so that the Nightingale party could join them. While in Paris, Moore visited ...
In 1880, she attracted the attention of Florence Nightingale, who had become embroiled in a piece Lonsdale had written concerning Guy's Hospital. Nightingale was unimpressed by her biography of Sister Dora because it showed a poor understanding of nursing procedures. [2] Sister Dora died of breast cancer on Christmas Eve 1878.
Rosalind Shore-Smith was the elder daughter of Florence Nightingale's cousin William Shore Smith (afterwards Shore Nightingale), whom Florence Nightingale "regarded almost as a brother". Barbara (nee Margaret Thyra Barbara Shore-Smith), Rosalind's sister, married Sir Harry Lushington Stephen . [ 3 ]