Can you (or anyone) recommend a good biography of Nightingale? I just looked this up hoping to purchase, but I don't want something that is written from a heavy-handed Christian perspective, or written for children and it would be nice if the author is a woman, although I'm not opposed to a male author if it is well written and radfem approved.
Unfortunately no, I am not aware of a really good one, although I am looking for one, because she was apparently more radical and intriguing than might be expected for her period and background in a way that reminds me of Margaret Anne Murray.
There is a fairly new biography of her either out or in print by a man who seems specially exercised to save her from just being known as “the lady with the lamp,” featured in a more recent 2023 article at HistoryExtra, but I too would prefer one by a woman with a not overbearingly Christian perspective.
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This Marginalian post includes a picture of Nightingale's perhaps most famous rose diagram:
https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/22/florence-nightingale-flowers/
And for more detailed scans and such, here is the link to the items by Nightingale at the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A"Nightingale%2C+Florence"
Can you (or anyone) recommend a good biography of Nightingale? I just looked this up hoping to purchase, but I don't want something that is written from a heavy-handed Christian perspective, or written for children and it would be nice if the author is a woman, although I'm not opposed to a male author if it is well written and radfem approved.
Unfortunately no, I am not aware of a really good one, although I am looking for one, because she was apparently more radical and intriguing than might be expected for her period and background in a way that reminds me of Margaret Anne Murray.
There is a fairly new biography of her either out or in print by a man who seems specially exercised to save her from just being known as “the lady with the lamp,” featured in a more recent 2023 article at HistoryExtra, but I too would prefer one by a woman with a not overbearingly Christian perspective.