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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]
Anna Maxwell (1851–1929), the American Florence Nightingale; was buried due to her contributions to the Army Nurse Corps; David McCampbell (1910–1996), the US Navy's top World War II fighter ace with 34 kills; Glenn Miller (1904–1944) cenotaph, Army Air Forces Major and well known band leader who disappeared over the English Channel
Embley Park, now a school, was the family home of Florence Nightingale. Embley Park, in Wellow (near Romsey, Hampshire), was the family home of Florence Nightingale from 1825 until her death in 1910. It is also where Florence Nightingale claimed she had received her divine calling from God.
Leashaw is the location of Lea Hurst, famous for being built by the Nightingale family as their summer home. A cotton mill was built in 1784 at Holloway by Peter Nightingale (a great uncle of Florence). He was sued by Richard Arkwright for infringement of patents. Although Arkwright won the case, it attracted the attention of the Lancashire ...
The letter by Florence Nightingale (Andrew Matthews/PA) “It is a remarkable find and is completely unspoiled, despite spending the last 140 years in an old scrapbook which belonged to the famed ...
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Mary Stanley was one of the women who answered the appeal which went out for nurses for the Crimea. 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]
The background features of Florence Nightingale's story are the machinations of the War Office, and the obtuseness of the military and politicians. Influenced by Sigmund Freud , Strachey depicts Florence Nightingale as an intense, driven woman who is both personally intolerable and admirable in her achievements.