Laura Elvery’s novel, Nightingale, invites us to see the legendary nurse not as a symbol, but as a person shaped by illness, desire, pain and time.

On Florence Nightingale’s birthday and ... and subsequently immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his 1857 poem “Santa Filomena,” Florence Nightingale first came to prominence ...

Then, American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalised Florence Nightingale as the “Lady with the Lamp.” in his poem Santa Filomena. He wrote: Lo! in that house of misery ...

Gena Gorrell talked with students at the Danilack Education Centre in Toronto, Canada, about her book [Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale], published by Tundra Books. Florence ...

Florence Nightingale’s legacy ‘has never been so relevant’ as world marks 200th birthday ... Medical staff read out Florence Nightingale poem. Your support helps us to tell the story.

Florence Nightingale was so much more than a lady with a lamp. The legend of the saintly nurse has long obscured the truth – that her mathematical genius was what really saved so many lives.

Florence Nightingale is often described as the founder of modern nursing. She was immortalised in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1857 poem, Santa Filomena: “A noble type of good / Heroic ...