fLORENCE nIGHTINGALE
Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy in Villa Columbia on May12, 1820. Florence was named after her birth place just like her older sister Parthenope, who has the Greek name of Naples. Florence was the daughter of the wealthy landowner William Nightingale of Embley Park Hampshire, and his wife Francis Nightingale born 1788 who was a sibling of ten children. William was part of the antislavery movement and both William and Francis "Fanny" were Unitarians. In England the Nightingales had two homes. They spent the summer months at their home in Lea Hurst in Derbyshire then moving to Williams home town Embley in Hampshire for the winter. Lea Hurst was later turned into a retirement home and Embley was turned into a school. Florence and her father were good friends and he treated her as a companion rather than a daughter, he took responsibility for her education by teaching her and her sister at their home. Florence was a competent student and William taught her Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian, History, Philosophy and Mathematics. She also excelled in Literature, Music, Drawing and the Domestic arts. Fanny Nightingale came from a stanch Unitarian family, she was a domineering women who was primarily concer
Today she is remembered as a symbol of selfless caring and tireless service. "Women are never supposed to have any occupation of sufficient importance not to be interrupted, except "suckling their fools"; and women themselves have accepted this, have written books to support it, and have trained themselves so as to consider whatever they do as not of such value to the world as others, but that they can throw it up at the first "claim of social life". In 1883 Florence's sister falls ill with arthritis, Florence puts all her nursing expertise back into practise as she nurses her sister. Not to her families surprise but to their disappointment she once again declined. It wasn't until July 6th 1851 when Florence returned to Kaiserswerth as a student after her Father gave her permission to study nursing for three months, until October 7th. However their are contradictions to when she actually refused the proposal Smith (1950) quotes that after seven years of waiting Florence finally rejects his proposal in 1849 after much agonising, she concludes that she could not have work of her own if she chooses to follow her heart into this society marriage. "Wherever there is disease in its most dangerous form, and the hand of the spoiler distressingly nigh, there is that incomparable woman sure to be seen; her benignant presence is an influence for good comfort even amid the struggles of expiring nature. In 1846 Florence was let into a secret, Lord Ashley told her about the government reports called Blue Books. In current biographies it is written that these trances may have been a form of epilepsy, which was unheard of in that era. At the age of 63 Florence is awarded with the Royal Red Cross by Queen Victoria. In 1910 "After February, 1910 she no longer spoke" (Smith,1950) The end came when Florence Nightingale went to sleep at noon and never woke up. Until the spring of 1844 she came to believe her calling was to heal the sick. The training enabled her to take up a vacancy as a superintendent of the "Establishment for Gentlewomen during Illness" at No 1 Harley St August 12th, 1853. It is because most of her statements in this book are like the one above that she was advised not to publish Cassandra as it went against society's beliefs.
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