Despite debilitating illness, she focused on preventing another Crimean calamity: the death of thousands due to avoidable causes. Catapulted into the Crimean War, she brought order to the chaos of British military hospitals, but she could never forget her patients. Florence's family, especially her mother, opposed the decision, yet Nightingale insisted. Born into Victorian Britain's elite, a brilliant, magnetic teenager decided to devote her life to the indigent sick by becoming a nurse. This is the first, full-length biography of Florence Nightingale told from a post-feminist perspective. In the year of the bicentenary of her birth, she remains as relevant as ever, achieving an astonishing cultural afterlife.ĭownload Florence Nightingale Feminist Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle Shedid most of this work from her bed after contracting the debilitating illness, brucellosis, in the Crimea, turning her various private homes into offices and ‘households of faith’. These efforts, inspired by her Christian faith and training in human care from religious houses, led to major changes in professional nursing and public health, as Nightingale strove for homely, compassionate care in Britain and around the world. Later, she created Nightingale Homes for nursing trainees and acted as mother-in-chief to her extended family of nurses. As a young woman, feeling imprisoned at home, she broke free to become a woman of action, bringing home comforts to the soldiers in the Crimean War and advising the British population on the home front how to create healthier, contagion-free homes.

From her childhood homes in Derbyshire and Hampshire, she visited the poor sick in their cottages. This timely book proposes a new understanding of Florence Nightingale’s experiences of domestic life and how ideas of home influenced her writings and pioneering work. Homes can be both comforting and troubling places. Download Florence Nightingale at Home Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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