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  2. Florence Nightingale - Wikipedia

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    Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4]

  3. History of feminism - Wikipedia

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    Florence Nightingale While many women including Norton were wary of organized movements, [ 89 ] their actions and words often motivated and inspired such movements. [ citation needed ] Among these was Florence Nightingale , whose conviction that women had all the potential of men but none of the opportunities [ 90 ] impelled her storied nursing ...

  4. Women in the Victorian era - Wikipedia

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    Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) was an important figure in renewing the traditional image of the nurse as the self-sacrificing, ministering angel—the 'Lady with the lamp', spreading comfort as she passed among the wounded. She succeeded in modernising the nursing profession, promoting training for women and teaching them courage ...

  5. Florence Nightingale letter on display after spending 140 ...

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    The letter by Florence Nightingale (Andrew Matthews/PA) “It is a remarkable find and is completely unspoiled, despite spending the last 140 years in an old scrapbook which belonged to the famed ...

  6. Florence Nightingale Museum to reopen on International ... - AOL

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    The Florence Nightingale Museum, an independent charity, had begun to celebrate the 200th anniversary of her birth when the pandemic hit in March 2020. Celebrations of the bicentenary, which had ...

  7. Feminism in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Florence Nightingale demonstrated the necessity of professional nursing and warfare, and set up an educational system that tracked women into that field in the second half of the nineteenth century. Teaching was not quite as easy to break into, but the low salaries were less of the barrier to the single woman than to the married man.

  8. Selina Bracebridge - Wikipedia

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    She became close friends with Florence Nightingale in 1846, and the Bracebridges travelled with her to Rome from 1847 to 1848, and around Europe, Greece, and Egypt between 1849 and 1850. [ 2 ] Florence Nightingale with Charles Holte Bracebridge and Selina Bracebridge in a Turkish street (1859)

  9. Arthur Hugh Clough - Wikipedia

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    Arthur Hugh Clough (/ k l ʌ f / KLUF; 1 January 1819 – 13 November 1861) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough and father of Blanche Athena Clough , who both became principals of Newnham College, Cambridge .