Friday, June 6, 2008

Florence Nightingale: the Lady with the Lamp

The romantic image of the Lady with the Lamp endures to this day. Florence Nightingale's pioneering work in nursing is well-documented, but were her own achievements, tending the ill and dying in the Crimea, quite what they seemed?

-- Mark Bostridge

Read on:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/nightingale_01.shtml

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