The Life of Florence Nightingale Volume II Part 37

Pages 1-36, report of the Public Meeting; pp. 1-16, "Appendix."

Extracts from Leading Articles in the London Journals, etc.; pp. 1-24, "Addenda," Report of Public Meetings in the provinces, 1856, etc.

_Circ._ 1856

(12) _The Prophecy of Ada, late Countess of Lovelace, on her friend Miss Florence Nightingale._ Written in the year 1851. Music composed by W. H.

Montgomery. London: G. Emery & Co. [no date].

The poem--"A Portrait: taken from Life"--is printed on the back of the song (see Vol. I. pp. 38, 142).

1857

(13) Davis. _The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, a Balaclava Nurse._ Edited by Jane Williams. 2 vols. Hurst & Blackett, 1857.

Davis was one of Miss Stanley's party. She served as cook in the General Hospital at Balaclava. Though the work of an obviously uneducated and prejudiced woman, the book is useful as ill.u.s.trating the intrigue against Miss Nightingale in the Crimea, and as reflecting the hostility which her strict discipline excited among some of the nurses. The book is not to be trusted. Miss Nightingale made very pungent remarks on this old woman's romancing about Lord Raglan and others.

(14) Pincoffs. _Experiences of a Civilian in Eastern Military Hospitals...._ By Peter Pincoffs, M.D., late Civil Physician to the Scutari Hospitals. William & Norgate.

Chapter vii., "The Providence of the Barrack Hospital," gives an account of Miss N.'s work. This is one of the most important authorities, being the testimony of an eye-witness and a medical man; but Dr. Pincoffs was not at Scutari till the middle of 1855.

(15) _Soyer's Culinary Campaign: being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War._ By Alexis Soyer. London: G. Routledge, 1857.

Also of much value, as the record of an eye-witness, and a partic.i.p.ator in Miss Nightingale's work.

1860

(16) An unpublished MS., found among Miss Nightingale's papers, written by "R. R.," a Private in the 68th Light Infantry, giving an account of his attendance upon her. He had been invalided from the Crimea, and in January 1855 Mr. Bracebridge selected him for duty as messenger to Miss Nightingale: Vol. I. p. 256.

1861

(17) "What Florence Nightingale has done and is doing." An article [by Mrs. S. C. Hall] in the _St. James's Magazine_, April 1861.

Gives an account, _inter alia_, of the early days of the "Nightingale Nurses."

1862

(18) _Experiences of an English Sister of Mercy._ By Margaret Goodman.

Smith, Elder & Co., 1862.

Miss Goodman was one of the "Sellonites" (see Vol. I. p. 159); she gives a somewhat detailed account of the nursing.

(19) _Statement of the Appropriation of the Nightingale Fund._ Reprinted, with slight additions, from a Paper read by Sir Joshua Jebb at the meeting of the Social Science a.s.sociation, 1862. Pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 12.

Various other publications of the kind have been consulted--such as: _Deed of Trust and other Deeds relating to the Nightingale Fund_ (London: Blades, 1878); and the _Annual Reports of the Committee of the Council of the Nightingale Fund_ from 1862 to 1910.

(20) _A Trip to Constantinople ... and Miss Nightingale at Scutari Hospital._ By L. Dunne. London: J. Sheppard.

The author was late Foreman of H.M. Stores at the Bosphorus.

1863

(21) Hornby. _Constantinople during the Crimean War._ By Lady Hornby.

With Ill.u.s.trations in Chromo-Lithography. London: Bentley, 1863.

Contains a few personal impressions of F. N. (see Vol. I. pp. 285, 296). Lady Hornby was wife of Sir Edmund Grimani Hornby, H.M.

British Commissioner to Turkey during the Crimean war.

1864

(22) _A Book of Golden Deeds._ [By Charlotte M. Yonge.] Macmillan, 1864.

This book, which became very widely popular, had on its t.i.tle-page a reproduction of the statuette of the Lady with the Lamp, and a reference to Miss Nightingale in its Preface.

(23) _A Woman's Example, and a Nation's Work: A Tribute to Florence Nightingale._ London: William Ridgway, 1864.

An account of the work of the United States Sanitary Commission (1861), inspired by American women. "All that is herein chronicled," says the author in a Dedication to Florence Nightingale, "you have a right to claim as the result of your own work" (see Vol. II. p. 9).

1865

(24) _Florence Nightingale. A Lecture delivered in the Theatre of the Medical College, November 9, 1865._ By Major G. B. Malleson. Calcutta, 1865.

1874

(25) _Thomas Grant, First_ [Roman Catholic] _Bishop of Southwark._ By Grace Ramsay [pseudonym of Kathleen O'Meara]. Smith, Elder & Co., 1874.

Chapter vii. gives a full account of the mission of the Bermondsey Nuns under Miss Nightingale.

1874-80

(26) _Life of the Prince Consort._ By Sir Theodore Martin. 5 vols.

Smith, Elder & Co.

The references to Miss Nightingale are in vol. iii.

1880

(27) _The Invasion of the Crimea._ By A. W. Kinglake. Vol. vi. "The Winter Troubles." Blackwood & Sons, 1880.

Chapter xi. is mainly devoted to an account of "The Lady-in-Chief"

(Miss Nightingale).