Edition |
2005 Random House trade paperback edition. |
Description |
xxiii, 544 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 21 cm |
Note |
Previously published: New York : Ballantine Books, c2004. With new reader's guide. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 466-514) and index. |
Contents |
Entails and abolitionists -- One big happy family -- Wen and Fanny, Ben and Anne, Sam and Mai -- Lea Hurst and Embley -- A privileged Victorian childhood -- In father's library -- Doing Europe in style -- Coming out -- Problems with the Nicholsons -- Mrs. Nightingale says no -- Florence Nightingale is tempted -- De Profundis Clamavi Domine -- Breaking free -- Managing Harley Street -- Britain goes to war -- Steeped up to our necks in blood -- Woman trouble -- Spring at last -- In the Crimea -- Living to fight their cause -- Family matters. |
Subject |
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Childhood and youth.
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Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Family.
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Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
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Nightingale family.
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Nurses -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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ISBN |
0345451880 |
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9780345451880 |
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