Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life

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Kitap Bölümü

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2009

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Wilfrid Laurier Press

A Précis of Her LifeFlorence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, 1820, the second daughter of wealthy English parents taking an extended European wedding trip.She was raised in England at country homes, Lea Hurst, in Derbyshire, and Embley, in Hampshire.She was educated largely by her father, who had studied classics at Trinity College, Cambridge.At age sixteen Nightingale experienced a ''call to service,'' but her family would not permit her to act on it by becoming a nurse, then a lowerclass occupation and thoroughly unthinkable for a ''lady.''Lengthy trips to Rome and Egypt were allowed (1847-48 and 1849-50 respectively).She had earlier (1837-39) been taken on a long trip with her family, mainly to Italy and France.These European trips not only improved her language skills (French, German and Italian) but exposed her to republican politics and Italian independence (she was in Rome and France during the revolts of 1848).Nightingale was finally permitted to spend three months at the (Protestant) Deaconess Institution in Kaiserswerth, near Düsseldorf, Ger many, in 1851 and several weeks with Roman Catholic nursing orders in Paris in 1853.Her father gave her an annuity in 1853 to permit her to become the superintendent of the Establishment for Gentlewomen during Illness, Upper Harley Street, London.She left there in 1854 to lead the first team of British women nurses sent to war.The British Army was poorly prepared for that war and the death rate from preventible disea…

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