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Florence Nightingale
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Nurse and social reformer
Place of birth
Place of death
London
About
Florence Nightingale was a nurse involved in sanitary reform. She gathered material on India for the 1863 Sanitary Commission. She was a member of the National Indian Association. She came from a strongly liberal family who consistently supported issues of social reform and self-determination in India.
Mary Hobhouse, Benjamin Jowett, Behramji Malabari, Elizabeth Adelaide Manning, Dadabhai Naoroji, Cornelia Sorabji, William Wedderburn.
Baly, Monica E. and Matthew, H. C. G., ‘Nightingale, Florence (1820–1910)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2009) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35241]
McDonald, Lynn and Vallée, Gérard (eds) Collected Works of Florence Nightingale (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001–8)
Adelaide Nutting Historical Nursing Collection, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Mss Eur B 151, letter to William Wedderburn, 1885, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras
Mss Eur F 234, letters to Sir Mountstuart Grant-Duff, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras
Image credit
Florence Nightingale by Elizabeth (née Rigby), Lady Eastlake, chalk, 1846, NPG 3254
© National Portrait Gallery, London, Creative Commons, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
