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NIGHTINGALE, PUBLIC HEALTH AND VICTORIAN SOCIETY
from the British Library, London

Part 2: Family letters and correspondence with Clough, Jowett, Martineau, Mill and others


"Microfilm publication of Florence Nightingale's original letters is good news for scholars. It will make available a substantial portion of the best collection in the world, that of the British Library."

Lynn McDonald, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
University of Guelph and editor of The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2002).


Florence Nightingale is one of the great icons of the Victorian Age. Yet there is much more to her than the image of the Lady with the Lamp would suggest. Yes, she was a driving force in the development of nursing as a profession, and she was involved in wider issues of public health, but she was also an indefatigable, intelligent and percipient reformer with interests ranging from religion to empire and womens role in society.

This microfilm collection is based on the British Library's outstanding collection of Nightingales correspondence and literary manuscripts. It is the largest collection of Nightingale papers in the world, consisting of around 180 volumes, although some papers can be found in archives and private collections elsewhere. This collection will include all the Nightingale volumes held at the British Library with the exception of around twenty which contain miscellaneous letters. We have also taken the opportunity to include important family correspondence not previously catalogued by Goldie and largely unknown to scholars.

Part 2 covers Nightingale's family letters and correspondence with intellectual and political friends. Letters with family include correspondence with her parents; with her sister Frances Parthenope and her brother-in-law, Sir Harry Verney; her nephew, Frederick William Verney and his wife Maude; Gwendolen Verney, daughter of the former; her uncle and aunt, Samuel and Mary Smith; her aunt, Hannah Nicholson; her cousin, Joanna Hilary Bonham Carter; Edith Joanna Bonham Carter; her cousin, William Shore-Smith and his wife, Louisa Eleanor and  Rosalind Frances Mary Shore-Smith, daughter of William Shore-Smith and wife of Vaughan Nash.

Nightingale writes to members of her family on all manner of subjects. Some letters are of a very personal nature showing her caring side, regularly sending flowers and presents. Many letters concentrate on her ongoing interests: hospitals, army medical schools, nursing and sanitation in India. She corresponds regularly on schools for Bosnian children in Sarajevo.



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