Florence Nightingale’s Spiritual Journey: Biblical Annotations, Sermons and Journal Notes: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 2Lynn McDonald Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1. jan. 2006 - 598 sider Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is widely known as the heroine of the Crimean War and the founder of the modern profession of nursing. She was also a scholar and political activist who wrote and worked assiduously on many reform causes for more than forty years. This series will confirm Nightingale as an important and significant nineteenth-century scholar and illustrate how she integrated her scholarship with political activism. Indispensable to scholars, and accessible and revealing to the general reader, it will show there is much more to know about Florence Nightingale than the “lady with the lamp.” Although a life-long member of the Church of England, Nightingale has been described as both a Unitarian and a significan nineteenth-century mystic. Volume 2 begins with an introduction to the beliefs, influences and practices of this complex person. The second and largest part of this volume consists of Nightingale’s biblical annotations, made at various stages of her life (some dated, some not). The third part of volume 2 contains her journal notes, including her diary for 1877, which is published here for the first time. Much of this material is highly personal, even confessional in nature. Some of it is profoundly moving and will serve to show the complexity and power of Nightingale’s faith. Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary. |
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... wrote: The story of Achilles and his horses is far more fit for children than that of Balaam and his ass, which is only fit to be told to asses. The stories of Samson and of Jephthah are only fit to be told to bulldogs and the story of ...
... wrote sensitively on Nightingale's spirituality, nevertheless held that Unitarianism ''played an important role'' in her life, and suggested that Frances Nightingale's conformity to the Church of England came ''perhaps in part from her ...
... wrote the letters to her family, ''Dear People,'' in the course of a six-month visit, including a lengthy trip on the Nile, beginning November 1849, when her parents permitted her to travel but not to work. Her sister had the letters ...
... wrote, ''Having seen in Egypt one faith, one hope of a future state—kings bowing their heads before it and their religion—law ensuring order throughout a vast empire—the highest classes submitting to it and the rest following— monuments ...
... wrote its religion upon its public monuments (fancy the statue of the Duke of York inscribed all over with the belief in a future state), to whom religion was what politics, what railroads are to us'' (248). Given Nightingale's own ...