Lonely Crusader: The Life of Florence Nightingale
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Author:
Cecil Woodham-Smith
Content:
Lonely Crusader: The Life of Florence Nightingale by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Publication:
1951 by Whittlesey House: A Division of McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
Genre:
Biography, Non-fiction
Pages:
255
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By popular demand—a special shortened edition of the superb biography, FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.
Mrs. Woodham Smith omits none of the drama and color of Florence Nightingale's life in this new edition, but gives special emphasis to her early years and career in nursing. The monumental achievements of her later life are presented in a much less detailed form than in the original version.
Brought up to be a charming, ineffectual lady of society, Florence Nightingale rebelled in young womanhood, entered the field of nursing in a time when it was considered a degraded, unworthy profession, spent hard years in the Crimea fighting for the welfare of the hospitalized British soldier, and then returned to continue her fight with officialdom for hospital reform and nursing education.
Based on papers just recently made public, Mrs. Woodham-Smith's book throws new light on a most important woman, and richly deserves the fine critical acclaim it has received in the adult edition.
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