The life of Florence Nightingale

An Accomplished Girl--An Angel in the Homes of the Poor--Children’s “Feast Day” at Lea Hurst--Her Bible-Class for Girls--Interests at Embley--Society Life--Longing for a Vocatio...

Enrolled a Deaconess at Kaiserswerth--Paster Fliedner--His Early Life--Becomes Pastor at Kaiserswerth--Interest in Prison Reform--Starts a Small Penitentiary for Discharged Fema...

Visits the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul in Paris--Illness--Resumes Old Life at Lea Hurst and Embley--Interest in John Smedley’s System of Hydropathy--Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Herbe...

Tribute to Florence Nightingale by the Countess of Lovelace--Outbreak of the Crimean War--Distressing Condition of the Sick and Wounded--Mr. W. H. Russell’s Letters to _The Time...

An Appalling Task--Stories of Florence Nightingale’s Interest in the Soldiers--Lack of Necessaries for the Wounded--Establishes an Invalids’ Kitchen and a Laundry--Cares for the...

Ill Health--Unremitting Toil--Founds Nightingale Training School at St. Thomas’s Hospital--Army Reform--Death of Lord Herbert of Lea--Palmerston and Gladstone pay Tributes to Mi...

Origin of the Liverpool Home and Training School--Interest in the Sick Paupers--“Una and the Lion” a Tribute to Sister Agnes Jones--Letter to Miss Florence Lees--Plea for a Home...

The Nightingale Home--Rules for Probationers--Deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Nightingale--Death of Lady Verney--Continues to Visit Claydon--Health Crusade--Rural Hygiene--A Letter to Mo...

Miss Nightingale To-day--Her Interest in Passing Events--Recent Letter to Derbyshire Nurses--Celebrates Eighty-fourth Birthday--King confers Dignity of a Lady of Grace--Appointe...

We are born into life--it is sweet, it is strange, We lie still on the knee of a mild mystery Which smiles with a change; But we doubt not of changes, we know not of spaces, The...

... Those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing.

H ome of the good, the pure at heart and beautiful, U ndying is the fame which, like a halo’s light, R ound thee is cast by the bright presence of the holy Florence S aint-like...

There is a lesson in each flower; A story in each stream and bower; On every herb o’er which you tread Are written words which, rightly read, Will lead you from earth’s fragrant...

An Accomplished Girl--An Angel in the Homes of the Poor--Children’s “Feast Day” at Lea Hurst--Her Bible-Class for Girls--Interests at Embley--Society Life--Longing for a Vocatio...

Enrolled a Deaconess at Kaiserswerth--Paster Fliedner--His Early Life--Becomes Pastor at Kaiserswerth--Interest in Prison Reform--Starts a Small Penitentiary for Discharged Fema...

When Florence Nightingale entered the Deaconess Hospital at Kaiserswerth, the institution, if we count the first primitive penitentiary, had been in existence sixteen years. It...

Visits the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul in Paris--Illness--Resumes Old Life at Lea Hurst and Embley--Interest in John Smedley’s System of Hydropathy--Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Herbe...

“I wish,” wrote Gladstone to Richard Monckton-Milnes (afterwards Lord Houghton) in October, 1855, “that some one of the thousand who in prose justly celebrate Miss Nightingale w...

Tribute to Florence Nightingale by the Countess of Lovelace--Outbreak of the Crimean War--Distressing Condition of the Sick and Wounded--Mr. W. H. Russell’s Letters to _The Time...

Lo, what gentillesse these women have, If we coude know it for our rudenesse! How busie they be us to keepe and save, Both in hele, and also in sickenesse! And always right sorr...

The official position which the Government had accorded Miss Nightingale was Superintendent of the Nursing Staff in the East, and the title by which she eventually became known...

An Appalling Task--Stories of Florence Nightingale’s interest in the Soldiers--Lack of Necessaries for the Wounded--Establishes an Invalids’ Kitchen and a Laundry--Cares for the...

The New Year of 1855 brought no mitigation in Florence Nightingale’s arduous task. Though there was no longer the influx of wounded from the battlefields, disease was making fea...

Miss Nightingale’s personal efforts for the sick and wounded soldiery were nobly and most generously seconded by sympathisers at home. Ladies were continually arriving at the Ad...

Throughout the spring of 1855 disease continued its ravages amongst the soldiers in the Crimea without abatement, and there was an increase of typhus fever in its worst form. Th...

The walls grew weak; and fast and hot Against them pour’d the ceaseless shot, With unabating fury sent, From battery to battlement; And thunder-like the pealing din Rose from ea...

Nothing daunted by the fatiguing journey to the camp hospitals at headquarters related in the last chapter, Miss Nightingale, although she was feeling indisposed, set out the ne...

How many now are left of those whose serried ranks Were first to land on Eupatoria’s hostile shore; Who rushed victoriously up the Alma’s banks, And won the primal honours of th...

Then leave her to the quiet she has chosen; she demands No greeting from our brazen throats and vulgar clapping hands. Leave her to the still comfort the saints know that have s...

Ill Health--Unremitting Toil--Founds Nightingale Training School at St. Thomas’s Hospital--Army Reform--Death of Lord Herbert of Lea--Palmerston and Gladstone pay Tributes to Mi...

In the years succeeding her return from the Crimea Miss Nightingale, in addition to the important labours recorded in the foregoing chapter, was actively engaged with her pen. H...

Origin of the Liverpool Home and Training School--Interest in the Sick Paupers--“Una and the Lion” a Tribute to Sister Agnes Jones--Letter to Miss Florence Lees--Plea for a Home...

Miss Nightingale’s work for the profession which her name and example had lifted into such high repute continued with unbated energy. The year 1871 brought what must have seemed...

Miss Nightingale to-day--Her Interest in Passing Events--Recent Letter to Derbyshire Nurses--Celebrates Eighty-fourth Birthday--King confers Dignity of a Lady of Grace--Appointe...