Gill Gillian. Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)

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GILL Gillian. Nightingales; the extraordinary upbringing wad curious life of Miss Florence Nightingale. Random House. 544p. illus. map. notes. index. c2004.0-345-451880. $15.95. A

Dense with details, Nightingales gives readers not just the life of the Lady with the Lamp, but her vast extended family, myriad acquaintances among the most influential Victorians including the Queen, a vivid account of the Crimean wounded and an Army cover-up, religious bigotry, politics, writers and artists, and an analysis of a class-ridden society worthy of Jane Austen. Intimate details are ...

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