For nearly 200 years, Florence ... Victorian wives in keeping members of their households healthy. Nightingale’s long, ultimately successful effort to bring trained nurses and midwives into ...

When Greta Westwood was 4 years old, she read a children’s book about Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale ... in the south of England, to help with the U.K.’s public health efforts in ...

Scherrikar Bell: The lady with the lamp. Florence Nightingale: was born on the 12th May 1820 in Florence, Italy, hence the name but was raised in England. And while it's true that she was the ...

Detractors recently have chipped away at Nightingale’s role as a caregiver, pointing out that she served as a nurse ... embracing Victorian convention and domestic life, Florence had greater ...

So where did it all begin for the nursing trailblazer? Read on to find out more. Florence Nightingale was named after the Italian city she was born in, but grew up in England and came from a well ...

Photos thought to be among the last taken of Florence Nightingale ... who was Nightingale’s companion late in her life, and show the nurse sitting in an armchair, according to auction house ...

Peter Kay knew a little bit about Florence Nightingale ... the house’s sitting rooms. Derbyshire, Kay explains, was not only where Nightingale discovered her vocation as a nurse, tending to ...

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(MENAFN- The Conversation) For nearly 200 years, Florence ... trained nurses and midwives into England's and Ireland's notorious workhouses has gone largely unacknowledged. During Victorian ...