CHAPTER X

FREEDOM. PARIS AND HARLEY STREET (1853-OCTOBER 1854)

Visit to Paris--Study in the hospitals--Return to England: death of her grandmother. II. Miss Nightingale invited to take charge of an institution in Harley Street. III. Return to Paris--Study with the Sisters of Charity--Illness. IV. Superintendent of the Harley Street "Hospital for Gentlewomen"--The gentle art of managing committees--Her vocation found--A last attempt to call her back. V. A holiday at Lea Hurst--Visit from Mrs. Gaskell--Outbreak of cholera: return to London. VI. Limited scope at Harley Street --Proposal to Miss Nightingale to become matron at King's College Hospital--Lady Lovelace's prophecy 127