Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea, 1854-1856.(Review)

From: The Historian | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: Burnam, Mary Ann Bradford | Copyright information

Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea, 1854-1856. Edited by Sue M. Goldie. (Manchester, UK: Mandolin, 1997. Pp. xii, 326. $18.95.)

This edition is a reissue of the author's earlier book, "I have done my duty," Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854-1856 (1987), which was originally intended to be one of a series of edited volumes of Nightingale's letters with the purpose of publishing all of Nightingale's important correspondence. Additional volumes will p...

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