Nightingales The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale

Name: Nightingales The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale
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ISBN: 9780345451880

ISBN-10: 0345451880

ISBN-13: 9780345451880

Edition: N/A

Authors: Gillian Gill

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Florence Nightingale was for a time the most famous woman in Britain–if not the world. We know her today primarily as a saintly character, perhaps as a heroic reformer of Britain’s health-care system. The reality is more involved and far more fascinating. In an utterly beguiling narrative that reads like the best Victorian fiction, acclaimed author Gillian Gill tells the story of this richly complex woman and her extraordinary family. Born to an adoring wealthy, cultivated father and a mother whose conventional facade concealed a surprisingly unfettered intelligence, Florence was connected by kinship or friendship to the cream of Victorian England’s intellectual aristocracy. Though moving…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/13/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English