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The life of Florence Nightingale. Vol. II (1862-1910) / Sir Edward Cook.

  • Cook, Sir Edward Tyas, 1857-1919.
Date:
1913
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    I 86l (17) What Florence Nightingale has done and is doing. An article [by Mrs. S. C. Hall] in the St. James's Magazine, April 1861. Gives an account, inter alia, of the early days of the Nightingale Nurses. 1862 (18) Experiences of an English Sister of Mercy. By Margaret Goodman. Smith, Elder & Co., 1862. Miss Goodman was one of the Sellonites (see Vol. I. p. 159) ; she gives a somewhat detailed account of the nursing. (19) Statement of the Appropriation of the Nightingale Fund. Reprinted, with slight additions, from a Paper read by Sir Joshua Jebb at the meeting of the Social Science Association, 1862. Pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 12. Various other publications of the kind have been consulted—such as : Deed of Trust and other Deeds relating to the Nightingale Fund (London : Blades, 1878) ; and the Annual Reports of the Committee of the Council of the Nightingale Fund from 1862 to 1910. (20) A Trip to Constantinople . . . and Miss Nightingale at Scutari Hospital. By L. Dunne. London : J. Sheppard. The author was late Foreman of H.M. Stores at the Bosphorus. 1863 (21) Hornby. Constantinople during the Crimean War. By Lady Hornby. With Illustrations in Chromo-Lithography. London : Bentley, 1863. Contains a few personal impressions of F. N. (see Vol. I. pp. 285, 296). Lady Hornby was wife of Sir Edmund Grimani Hornby, H.M. British Commissioner to Turkey during the Crimean war. 1864 (22) A Book of Golden Deeds. [By Charlotte M. Yonge.] Mac- millan, 1864. This book, which became very widely popular, had on its title-page a reproduction of the statuette of the Lady with the Lamp, and a reference to Miss Nightingale in its Preface. (23) A Woman's Example, and a Nation's Work : A Tribute to Florence Nightingale. London : William Ridgway, 1864. An account of the work of the United States Sanitary Commission (1861), inspired by American women. All that is herein chronicled, says the author in a Dedication to Florence Nightingale, you have a right to claim as the result of your own work (see Vol. II. p. 9).