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Book Description
In this remarkable book, the first major biography of Florence Nightingale in more thanfifty years, Mark Bostridge draws on a wealth of unpublished material,...
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guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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God's prompter
When Florence Nightingale died, aged 90, in 1910, a female doctor signed the certificate that allowed the event to be recorded and registered. In 1820, the year of Nightingale's birth, there had been no female doctors, no systematic registration of b ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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Book Details
- English Books
- Others 672 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0374156654
- ISBN-13: 9780374156657
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Pub date: Oct 14, 2008
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Richard 
This Matron was no battleaxe
In 1912, two years after her death at 90, a statue of Florence Nightingale was erected on Waterloo Place, London. The Times reported that the statue's face reflected 'characteristic qualities of strength of will irradiated by an expression of great s ... (read full critics)