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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In late nineteenth-century London, fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence Nightingale for help when her investigation into the disappearance of a Crimean War widow grows cold.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The common soldier's savior, the standard-bearer of modern nursing, a pioneering social reformer: Florence Nightingale belongs to that select band of historical characters who are instantly recognizable. Home-schooled, bound for the life of an educated Victorian lady, Nightingale scandalized her family when she found her calling as a nurse, a thoroughly unsuitable profession for a woman of her class. As the "Lady with the Lamp," ministering to the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Florence Nightingale’s day, if a person was sick – and lucky – he or she was nursed at home with caring family members tending the bedside. Hospitals were horrible places from which few emerged alive. The nurses were often drunks and prostitutes. Doctors had rudimentary skills.
Thus the privileged Nightingale family was appalled when Florence, who had done her share of household nursing, announced that she wanted to train to...
Thus the privileged Nightingale family was appalled when Florence, who had done her share of household nursing, announced that she wanted to train to...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) achieved fame for her leadership of a group of British nurses during the Crimean War. After the war, she dedicated herself to promoting public health. She became one of history's most famous invalids, following a collapse at the age of thirty-seven which left her bedridden for more than ten years." "By carefully reconstructing the chronology of events that led to her breakdown, Hugh Small has produced a new and startling...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
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 like the best Victorian fiction, acclaimed author Gillian Gill tells the story of this richly complex woman and her extraordinary family. Born to an adoring...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
1853. Florence Nightingale has just accepted the position of Superint --endent of the Establishment for Gentlewomen During Temporary Illness in London. She has hardly had time to learn the names of the nurses in her charge when she finds Nurse Bellamy hanging in the Establishment's library. Determined to preserve what little reputation her hospital has, and bringing Nurse Bellamy's killer to justice. When her attention turns to an hospital investor,...