Nightingales

The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale

by Gillian Gill

2004 544 pages eng

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…