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Florence Nightingale Mark Bostridge

Florence Nightingale By Mark Bostridge

Florence Nightingale by Mark Bostridge


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Whether honoured and admired or criticized, Florence Nightingale has invariably been misrepresented and misunderstood. From her tireless campaigning and staggering intellectual abilities to her tortured relationship with her sister and her distressing medical condition, this book deals with one of the iconic figures in modern British history.

Florence Nightingale Summary

Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend by Mark Bostridge

Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography

Mark Bostridge's Florence Nightingale is a masterful and effortlessly enjoyable biography of one of Britain's most iconic heroines.

Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been misrepresented and misunderstood. As the Lady with the Lamp, ministering to the wounded and dying of the Crimean War, she offers an enduring image of sentimental appeal and one that is permanently lodged in our national consciousness. But the awesome scale of her achievements over the course of her 90 years is infinitely more troubling - and inspiring - than this mythical simplification.

From her tireless campaigning and staggering intellectual abilities to her tortured relationship with her sister and her distressing medical condition, this vivid and immensely readable biography draws on a wealth of unpublished material and previously unseen family papers, disentangling the myth from the reality and reinvigorating with new life one of the most iconic figures in modern British history.

Florence Nightingale Reviews

'It is hard to imagine how one might improve on Bostridge's masterly understanding' Sunday Times 'A masterly work, sympathetic but even-handed, and enormously enjoyable to read' New Statesman 'Perceptive and engrossing ... a fascinating portrait' History Today 'Compellingly authoritative' Evening Standard 'A biography that triumphs' Daily Mail 'Sympathetic and vivid ... Will not be superseded for generations to come' Telegraph 'A masterly achievement ... immensely readable' Financial Times

About Mark Bostridge

Mark Bostridge won the Gladstone Memorial Prize at Oxford University. His first book Vera Brittain: A Life was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the NCR Non-Fiction Award, and the Fawcett Prize. His books also include the bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation; Lives for Sale, a collection of biographers' tales; Because You Died; and The Fateful Year. England 1914 published in 2014. Florence Nightingale was awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography.

Additional information

GOR001545537
9780140263923
0140263926
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend by Mark Bostridge
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
2009-05-07
704
Winner of Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2009
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