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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale: 1820-1910 (Classic Reprint) | Cecil Woodham-Smith
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Excerpt from Florence Nightingale: 1820-1910 In writing this biography I have been given the opportunity of presenting what I believe to be a complete picture of Miss Nightingale for the first time. When Sir Edward Cook wrote his admirable official life immediately after Miss Nightingale's death, there was a large body of material which, for family and personal reasons, was either not available to him or he was asked not to use. He did not, for instance, see the Verney Nightingale papers; he saw only part of the collection I have described as the Herbert papers; and there was a great deal of other correspondence of which he was asked to make only a limited use. I have been fortunate enough to be given access to this material. My thanks are due, first and foremost, to Sir Harry Verney, Bart., who most generously placed at my disposal the very important Verney Nightingale papers comprising the domestic correspondence and private papers of Miss Nightingale's mother, Frances, her sister Parthenope, Lady Verney, and the Nightingale family circle. I am deeply indebted to Lord Herbert for allowing me to use unpublished material from the Herbert papers, establishing, among other important points, the true nature of the relationship between Miss Nightingale and Lord and Lady Herbert of Lea. I should like to thank the late Mrs. Salmon, Sir Harry Verney's sister, for unpublished letters and private information, and I owe very much to the late Lady Stephen, not only for unpublished letters and reminiscences, but for her kindness, too, in procuring me access to family papers. I am indebted to Sir Ralph Verney, Bart., for the correspondence of his father, Mr. Frederick Verney, with Miss Nightingale; to Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter for permission to make use of family papers; and to Mr. Leigh Smith for information of importance from the Leigh Smith papers. Sir Shane Leslie has allowed me to use two letters from his biography of Cardinal Manning, and Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton have kindly given me permission to quote extracts from letters published in Miss Elizabeth Haldane's Mrs. Gaskell and Her Friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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“Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.”– Florence Nightingale

#Hospital
#SavvySettings

Eggs Well done 3y
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This is the only one of my #OldCoolBooks to still have its #dustjacket. But I think it's beautiful!

@Linsy

Lcsmcat And a lovely dust jacket it is! 7y
merelybookish Gorgeous! 7y
LeahBergen I love these RS edition dust jackets. 👍🏻 7y
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AmyG It is beautiful. None of my old books have dust jackets. 7y
Bookwomble I've got Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World in this edition worth its book jacket somewhere. They are nice, aren't they? 7y
rubyslippersreads 😍😍😍 7y
Linsy Whoa, that dust jacket!!! 😮😍🤩 7y
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#Imeverywoman
#fiercefeb
Being a nurse I have to give props to this woman!! The founder of modern nursing!!! 👏🏻💗

Godmotherx5 Hear hear! 7y
batsy 👏👏 Love this! 7y
Cinfhen 😍🙌🏻✅👩🏼‍⚕️ 7y
mrp27 👏🏻👏🏻 7y
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#writtenbydeceasedauthor

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Found this one on the shelf at my grandmother‘s... Along with many other very old books!! 📚📚

Being a nurse I had to “borrow “ this one!!