Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale by Gillian Gill

Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale

Gillian Gill

544 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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Florence Nightingale was for a time the most famous woman in Britain–if not the world. We know her today primarily as a saintly character, perhaps as a heroic reformer of Britain’s health-care system. The reality is more involved and far more fasc...

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