Letters from Egypt
Letters from Egypt

Author: Florence Nightingale

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 1992-08-01

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9780802115324

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A collection of letters written during a journey to Egypt describing the author's views on the country and its history and people

Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale
Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale

Author: Florence Nightingale

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9780674270206

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For many, Florence Nightingale is the most famous woman of her day, second only perhaps to Queen Victoria. Celebrated and beloved by the public and her friends, considered an irritant by politicians and bureaucrats, the great reformer remains a figure of considerable controversy. In this full 'life in letters' we see her at first hand. Martha Vicinus and Bea Nergaard weave together a narrative account and a selection of her letters in such a way as to create--in Nightingale's own words--a fascinating portrayal of the woman, her career, and her concerns.

Waters Rising
Waters Rising

Author: Sheila Waters

Publisher:

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9781940965000

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Peter Waters and book conservation at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze after the 1966 flood

The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley, 1869-1931
The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley, 1869-1931

Author: Florence Kelley

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 025203404X

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As head of the National Consumers' League from its founding in 1899 until her death in 1932, Florence Kelley led campaigns that reshaped the conditions under which goods were produced in the United States. She also worked to pass laws providing for an eight-hour workday, a minimum wage, the first federal health legislation for women and children, and abolition of child labor. An ally of W.E.B. DuBois, she was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and served on its board for twenty years. This volume collects nearly three hundred of Kelley's letters, written over the course of more than six decades. Rendered in Kelley's vivid, often combative prose, these letters also provide an intimate view into the personal life of a dedicated reformer who balanced her career with her responsibilities as a single mother of three children.

Dear Miss Nightingale
Dear Miss Nightingale

Author: Benjamin Jowett

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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When Florence Nightingale returned from the Crimean War, broken in health and requiring seclusion, she was befriended and attended to by prominent Oxford scholar Benjamin Jowett. Dear Miss Nightingale collects for the first time in a single volume his correspondence to her, in which he offered constant encouragement and kept her in touch with the trends of the times and the social movements of London drawing rooms. More than a sensitive testament of an enduring friendship between two eminent Victorians, these letters offer insight into the subtleties of the social life of the period.