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Grade 5-9-This highly readable and well-researched biography does an excellent job of integrating the social and medical conditions of Nightingale's time. Born into a wealthy English family, Nightingale was expected to pursue trivial tasks and make a "good marriage." However, she decided to study nursing and to make a contribution to society instead. Years later as superintendent of nurses for the British hospitals in Turkey during the Crimean War, she found herself battling horrendous sanitary conditions and bureaucratic blockades. Gorrell fleshes out her subject's stubborn persistence, organizational genius, and exacting intelligence with quotations from family letters, official correspondence, and private letters from Queen Victoria. Enlivening the narrative are black-and-white reproductions of drawings (some done by Nightingale's family and friends) and period photographs. Source notes, a selected bibliography, picture credits, and a Web address for the Nightingale Museum in London are appended. Gorrell succeeds in separating myth from reality, smoothly crafting a picture of a gifted individual who was also wholly human.
Cindy Darling Codell, Clark Middle School, Winchester, KY
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Cindy Darling Codell, Clark Middle School, Winchester, KY
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Gr. 5-8. Born in 1820, Florence Nightingale was still in her teens when she felt called to God's service, but her wealthy family opposed her intentions to do something useful in the world. Though many people are familiar with Nightingale's name and her image as "the lady with the lamp," this compelling biography makes clear that she did not rise to importance by goodness and mercy. She relentlessly drove herself and those around her for whatever cause she determined was right. Gorrell clearly portrays Nightingale as a multifaceted individual, with many admirable qualities and some negative traits that sometimes made getting along with her as difficult for her family and friends as for her foes in the military and the government. Well-captioned, black-and-white reproductions of photographs, paintings, drawings, and engravings offer readers glimpses of Nightingale's world. A bibliography and source notes are appended. Lively and highly readable. Carolyn Phelan
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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