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1845: nursing her father's mother, i. 31, 49; death of her nurse, i. 31; country-house visits, i. 36; housekeeping, i. 42; nursing plan disallowed, i. 44; bitter disappointment, i. 59; increasing sense of a vocation, i. 60, 68 1846: friends, i. 35; happy time at Lea Hurst, i. 53, 64; inquiries about nursing sisterhoods, i. 63; hears of Kaiserswerth, i. 63 1847: London amusements, i. 65; visit to Oxford, i. 65; country-house visits, i. 65 1847-48: winter in Rome, i. 69, 70, 105; Michael Angelo in the Sistine, i. 71; interest in Italian politics, i. 74-6; studies in the Convent of the Trinità de' Monti, i. 77-9; friendship with Sidney Herbert and his wife, i. 79; acquaintance with Manning, i. 80 1848: the London season, i. 80; distaste for society, i. 81; plan to visit Kaiserswerth disappointed, i. 82; the cure at Malvern, i. 82, 118 1849: Ragged School work, i. 82; parental restrictions, i. 83 1849-50: winter in Egypt, i. 84-6; with the French Sisters at Alexandria, i. 87; spring at Athens, i. 87-9; interest in Greek politics, i. 89-90; with American missionaries, i. 91; visit to Corfu, i. 90; Dresden and Berlin, study of hospitals, i. 91-2; first visit to Kaiserswerth, i. 92-3, 105; literary temptation resisted, i. 93-4; self-devotion to the sick, i. 93, 95; opportunities of marriage, devotion to the single life, i. 96-103 1851: increasing dissatisfaction with home life, i. 104-7; sense of vocation, i. 106; resolve to declare her independence, i. 107; second visit to Kaiserswerth, i. 108-15 1852: the water-cure at Umberslade, i. 116-17; meets George Eliot and Mrs. Browning, i. 118; visit to Ireland, study of hospitals, i. 118; to Sir James Clark, i. 118; nurses her "Aunt Evans," i. 118; occupied in writing _Suggestions for Thought_, i. 119-22; "call to be a saviour" (May 7), i. 43; recasts her beliefs, i. 469, 488; plan for hospital-study in Paris, delayed by her parents, i. 122-126 1853: visit to Paris (Feb.), study in hospitals, i. 127; return to England to nurse her grandmother, i. 128; negotiations with Committee of the Harley Street Hospital for gentlewomen, i. 129-130; return to Paris (May), enters a Maison de la Providence, i. 131; attack of measles, i. 132; return to London, enters Harley Street Hospital as superintendent, i. 133 1853 (Aug. 12)-1854 (Oct.): work in Harley Street, i. 133-139; a holiday at Lea Hurst (Aug. 1854), meets Mrs. Gaskell, i. 139; return to nurse cholera cases at Middlesex Hospital, i. 140; resumes work in Harley Street, i. 140; negotiations with King's College Hospital,