Victorian Medicine and Social Reform: Florence Nightingale Among the Novelists

by Louise Penner

Book Overview

Victorian Medicine and Social Reform traces Florence Nightingale s career as a reformer and Crimean war heroine. Her fame as a social activist and her writings including Notes on Nursing and Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army influenced novelists such as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot. Their novels of social realism, in turn, influenced Nightingale's later essays on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230615953
• ISBN13: 9780230615953
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"