Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Florence Nightingale, 1820-1856: A Study of Her Life Down to the and of the Crimean War
Sir Edward Cook's two large volumes, published by Messrs. Macmillan in 1915, give a wonderfully complete record of her work and include some valuable letters and quotations. They were abridged and revised in 1925 by Miss Nightingale's cousin, Mrs. Vaughan Nash, and this shorter biography, also published by Messrs. Macmillan, is still obtainable and should be in the posses sion of all who care about Florence Nightingale and do not own the larger book.
In the present volume I have attempted something rather different from that which was so well accomplished by Sir Edward Cook and Mrs. Vaughan Nash. I have tried to give a faint representation of what might have been in the autobiography if it had existed and to show Florence Nightingale's early years as they may have appeared to herself.
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