ii. 8, 24, 164, 235, 324, 339, 350, 357, 373, 375, 421

Verney, Frances Parthenope, Lady [(1) _General_; (2) _Letters_.] (1) _General_:-- Elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Nightingale, i. 3-4; birthplace, i. 4; birthday, i. 429; F. N.'s early letter to, i. 10, 11; a quick pupil, i. 13; on a winter in Paris with F. N. (1838-39), i. 20; temperament of, contrasted with F. N.'s, i. 28, 29; character of, i. 105; attitude to F. N. and her aspirations, i. 69, 84, 104, 105, 114, 115, 125, 126, 138, 141; marries Sir H. Verney (June 1858), i. 380; collects and receives gifts and offers of nurses for F. N. at Scutari, i. 166, 264-6; writes _Life and Death of Athena, an Owl_, i. 160; lives near her sister in South Street, ii. 301; entertains nurses for her, ii. 304; on F. N.'s Indian work, ii. 273; on her sister as "like a man," ii. 15; on her interesting life, ii. 321; affection for her, ii. 382; illness, ii. 324; death, ii. 382; portraits of F. N. by, ii. 468; various references, i. 33, 148, 163, 369, ii. 82, 164, 235 (2) _Letters of_:-- To Madame Mohl, i. 33, 166, 371, 499; to F. N., i. 265, 274, 280, 306, 372; to various friends, i. 62, 154, 155, 159, 198, 252, 259, 261, 264, 280, 304, 305, 320 Verney, Margaret, Lady, ii. 389 Victoria, Queen, accession of, i. 479; the Bedchamber Plot, i. 25; Lord Melbourne and, i. 26; visit t o Strathfieldsaye (1845), i. 37; desires F. N.'s letters from the East to be sent to her (Dec. 6, 1854), i. 215; her letter read in Scutari hospitals, i. 215; and, published in the press, checks sectarian outcry against F. N., i. 245-6; commissions F. N. as almoner of the Royal Gifts to sick and wounded (Dec. 14, 1854), i. 216; sends presents to the nurses, i. 216; writes to ministers on F. N.'s letters, i. 216; consults F. N. as to what help Her Majesty could render to the soldiers, i. 223; writes to ministers about Scutari cemetery, i. 223; has bulletins of F. N.'s Crimean fever, i. 259; presents F. N. with a jewel (Nov. 1855), i. 274, 294, 296; sends print for F. N.'s Inkermann Café (Nov. 1855), i. 281; sends F. N.'s letter to the Cabinet (Dec. 1855), i. 278; F. N.'s expression of help rendered by Her Majesty, i. 294; approves Sir J. Clark's invitation to F. N. to come to Ballater (Aug. 1856), i. 321; F. N. introduced to, at Balmoral (Sept. 21, 1856), i. 324; calls on F. N. (Sept. 26), i. 324; requests F. N. to stay to meet Lord Panmure, i. 325; writes to Lord Panmure about F. N., i. 325; commands F. N. to Balmoral (Oct.), i. 326; her opinion of F. N., i. xxvi, 213, 324, 325; Proclamation to people of India (1858), ii. 324, 331, 340, 381; acknowledges _Notes on Nursing_, i. 450; places hospital beds at F. N.'s disposal, i. 497; the Royal Commission on India (1859), ii. 21; offers rooms in Kensington Palace (1861), i. 498; death of the Prince Consort, ii. 26; reads F. N.'s _Observations_ on India (1862), ii. 26; appointment of Lord de Grey (1863), ii. 29; sends F. N. Prince Albert's speeches, inscribed, ii. 26; choice of Prime Minister after Palmerston, ii. 92; asks F. N. to see Queen of Prussia (1867), ii. 187; sends message to F. N. (1868), ii. 192; lays stone of, and opens, St. Thomas's Hospital, ii. 246; sends message on death of F. N.'s mother (1880), F. N.'s reply, ii. 323; sends F. N. _Life of Prince Consort_, ii. 324; sends message to F. N. at opening of the Law Courts (1882), ii. 336; invites F. N. to Windsor to receive Royal Red Cross (1883), ii. 339; subsequent communications on Army and India, ii. 339-40; devotes Women's Jubilee Gift to nursing, ii. 355; invites F. N. to witness Diamond Jubilee procession, ii. 412; letters to F. N., i. 216, 274, ii. 340; various references, i. 21, 215, 330, 493 Victoria, the Crown Princess (Empress Frederick), sends message to F. N. (1858), i. 384; consults F. N. on Austro-Prussian War (1866) nursing, ii. 116, 117; on Franco-German War, ii. 200, 203, 204; sees F. N. (1868, 1870), ii. 188 _seq._, 203; founds Nursing School in Berlin, ii. 204; lunches at F. N.'s house, ii. 303; later visits, ii. 357, 413; F. N. on, ii. 187, 188; letters to F. N., ii. 118, 189, 204 Victorian Era Exhibition, ii. 408 Village Sanitation, in England, ii. 383, 384; in India, ii. 377 (_see also_ Indian Sanitation) Villiers, C. P., and F. N.'s scheme of small ownership (1865), ii. 93; communications with F. N. on Poor Law Reform (1864-67), ii. 130 _seq._; adopts her scheme, ii. 105, 134; abandons idea of a Bill, ii. 105, 134; attitude to Mr. Hardy's Bill (1867), ii. 135, 138; on F. N., ii. 130, 139 _n._ Vincent, Miss, ii. 256 Virgil, a boy's translation of, i. 129 Virtue, "a second-rate virtue," ii. 95 Vivian, Sir R., ii. 19, 21, 22 Voltaire, ii. 317 Volunteers, F. N. on the, i. 496, ii. 7, 8, 336 Voysey Defence Fund, ii. 200 Vulgarity, i. 424

Waddington, Mr., i. 437 Wady Halfa, ii. 346 Walker, Dr. J. P., ii. 50 Wantage, Lord (Colonel Loyd Lindsay), ii. 199, 337, 434, 457 Wantage, Lady, ii. 409 War, ii. 411 Ward, Sir Henry, i. 90 Ward Island Emigrant Hospital, F. N.'s gift to, ii. 9 _n._ Ward, Lord, i. 260 Wardroper, Mrs., Matron, St. Thomas's Hospital, i. 458; F. N.'s character-sketch of, i. 458; Nightingale Training School and, i. 459, 461, 462, 463, ii. 190, 193, 194, 247, 248, 254, 268, 302, 326; on Agnes Jones, ii. 126; retires, ii. 354 War Office, organization of (1854), i. 248, 249; reorganization of, attempted (1860-61), i. 403, 404; partial, (1862) ii. 62; (1868) ii. 161; obstruction to various reforms, i. 380, 390, 394, 405; after S. Herbert's death undermining his work, ii. 4, 9, 94; F. N.'s sarcasm on, ii. 72; principles of reform, ii. 63-4; F. N. as adviser to (1862-66), ii. 59 _seq._ Washington, George, ii. 91 Water cure, i. 118 Waterloo, battle of, ii. 404, 410 Watts, G. F., portrait of Sir John. Lawrence, ii. 43; of F. N. (unfinished), ii. 469 Waverley Abbey, i. 29, 32 Webster, Sir R. (Lord Alverstone), ii. 362, 363 Wedderburn, Sir William, ii. 332, 371, 378, 379, 404, 453 Wellington, Duke of, ii. 404, 410 Wellow, F. N.'s reply to parishioners of, i. 309 Wensleydale, ii. 101 Werckner, Madame, ii. 202 West Indian colonies, staff-surgeons, ii. 70 Westminster, Duke of, ii. 355, 364 Westminster Hospital, ii. 256 Westminster Ragged Schools, i. 82, 93 _Westminster Review_, i. 377 Wheatstone, Sir Charles, i. 65 White, Blanco, ii. 12 Whitfield, R. G., Resident medical officer St. Thomas's Hospital, i. 185, 458; corresponds with F. N. on removal of the hospital, i. 425, 426; Nightingale Training School and, i. 458, 459, 460; retires, ii. 247 Whybron, Thomas, i. 279 Widows' caps, F. N.'s, ii. 15 Wilberforce, William, i. 5 Wilbraham, Colonel, i. 405 William I., German Emperor, ii. 314 _n._ William II., German Emperor, ii. 420 William IV., i. 479 "William." _See_ Jones Williams, Dr., ii. 17 Williams, Mrs. Margaret, i. 234 Williams, Miss Rachel (Mrs. D. Morris), ii. 255, 256, 260, 347 Wilton House, ii. 4 Winchester County Hospital, i. 422, 423; health of, ii. 119 Wintle, W. J., _The Story of Florence Nightingale_, ii. 466; quoted or referred to, i. 236, 237 "Wiping" Sub-Commission, i. 364, 366, 394 Wiseman, Cardinal, i. 250 _n._, 253 "Wives," F. N.'s, i. 383 Wives and mothers, selfishness of, ii. 15 Wolff, Dr. H., ii. 441 Wolseley, Lord, and the Soldiers' Institute, Portsmouth, ii. 77; on female nurses in military hospitals, ii. 341, 342; on hospital deficiencies, Egypt, 1882, ii. 338 _n._ Woman, Women, as "handmaids of the Lord," ii. 366; as health missioners, ii. 353; attitude of, to women, ii. 315; better life for, sought by F. N., i. 102, 442, ii. 366; business-like efficiency in religious Orders, i. 432; the Churches and work for, i. 57; crave for being loved, not for loving, ii. 15; have only odds and ends of time, i. 116, ii. 238; in the Bible and Greek literature, ii. 229; inaccuracy of, ii. 15; influence of, i. 332; "inspiration" of, ii. 316; lack power of attention, ii. 14; lack power of sympathy, ii. 14; midwifery as a career for, ii. 197; new sphere for, opened by F. N.'s Crimean mission, i. 305, 306, 448; F. N.'s knowledge of, ii. 14; the _respublica_ and, ii. 95; regulations and, ii. 195; "woman's movement," i. 385, 441,