Letters from Florence Nightingale
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Letters from Florence Nightingale
Classmark: BC Egerton Leigh/04/Nightingale
Creator(s): Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)
Date(s): 19th century
Size and medium: 5 items
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/504692
Collection group(s): Medical Collections
Description
Contains two letters from Florence Nightingale, one sent to Mrs Richard Morris and the other to Lydia Leigh; and three copies of printed artworks.
Biography or history
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), was famous for transforming the nursing profession and her reforms still influence nursing practice today. She is particularly well-known for her work during the Crimean War (1853-1856) as the 'Lady of the Lamp', organising the nursing of wounded soldiers. She established the first ever professional training school for nurses in 1860, at St Thomas' Hospital, London, and throughout her life campaigned extensively for improvements to health standards.
Sources: Monica E. Baly, H. C. G. Matthew, ‘Nightingale, Florence (1820–1910)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35241, accessed 1 July 2016]
'Biography of Florence Nightingale', Florence Nightingale Museum website: http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/resources/biography/ [accessed 1 July 2016]
Provenance
The catalogue description for this file represents only one section of this volume, the rest has not currently been catalogued to this level of detail.
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