For nearly 200 years, Florence Nightingale’s name has been synonymous with gentle compassion and mercy. In the mid-19th century, Nightingale became perhaps the most celebrated woman of her era – ...

Last summer, the Florence Nightingale Museum in London announced a holiday program for children. It ran like this: “Daily-changing drop-in activities include crafting a pattern lantern like the one ...

Florence Nightingale in bed at South Street in 1906, aged 86 Photographed by Elizabeth Bosanquet / Florence Nightingale Museum In 1854, Florence Nightingale arrived at a military hospital in Scutari, ...

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When Greta Westwood was 4 years old, she read a children’s book about Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale. Decades later, she still remembers being transfixed by the enduring image of the “Lady with ...

Since she published a book about Florence Nightingale in 2013, historian Judith Lissauer Cromwell ’57 has spoken at numerous events for nursing students. Surprisingly, she has found that half of her ...