A lost commander : Florence Nightingale / by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews.

  • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Date:
1933, ©1929
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Credit: A lost commander : Florence Nightingale / by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tling possession of leisure. These Nightingale children had many interests: gardening, writing, philanthropy, pets, and such an education as few girls got in those days or could in these. Speak¬ ing French, German, and Italian fluently, read¬ ing Greek and Latin at sixteen—that is a stand¬ ard which most mothers would hesitate to set for their progeny. Frances Parthenope, the sister, older by a year, never distinguished, always beautiful, sweet, and intelligent, must have been quite a person away from the shadow of the great person, her younger sister. The two studied and played together, and apparently “ Parthe,” as the family called her when they did not call her “Pop,” held up her end efficiently. Parthe was a quicker scholar at Greek than Florence. The two blooming young things, deep in the country, seem to have accomplished about forty years work of learning in their first eighteen. They studied Roman, German, Italian, and Turkish history, and Florence, at least, took notes and analyzed much of this solid ground¬ work. She analyzed a Philosophy of the Human Mind—many of us at sixteen or sixty have not heard of it. Between such titanic intellectual games she scampered about on her pony or transplanted wild flowers. She walked the long sweeping path through the rhododendrons at
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