
Florence Nightingale, Feminist
This is the first, full-length biography of Florence Nightingale told from a post-feminist perspective. Born into Victorian Britain''s elite, a brilliant, magnetic teenager decided to devote her life to the indigent sick by becoming a nurse. Florence''s family, especially her mother, opposed the decision, yet Nightingale insisted. Catapulted into the Crimean War, she brought order to the chaos ...
This is the first, full-length biography of Florence Nightingale told from a post-feminist perspective. Born into Victorian Britain''s elite, a brilliant, magnetic teenager decided to devote her life to the indigent sick by becoming a nurse. Florence''s family, especially her mother, opposed the decision, yet Nightingale insisted. Catapulted into the Crimean War, she brought order to the chaos ...