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Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale
by Gillian Gill
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0345451872
- ISBN 13
- 9780345451873
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About This Item
New York: Ballantine Books, September 2004. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Very Good cover. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Slight reading/shelf wear to cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 560 pages.
Florence Nightingale was for a time the most famous woman in the world. We know her today primarily as a saintly character, perhaps as a heroic reformer of Britain's health-care system. The reality is more involved and far more fascinating. Combining biography, politics, social history, and consummate storytelling, Nightingales is a portrait of an amazing woman, her difficult but loving family, and the high Victorian era they epitomized.
Florence Nightingale was for a time the most famous woman in the world. We know her today primarily as a saintly character, perhaps as a heroic reformer of Britain's health-care system. The reality is more involved and far more fascinating. Combining biography, politics, social history, and consummate storytelling, Nightingales is a portrait of an amazing woman, her difficult but loving family, and the high Victorian era they epitomized.
Synopsis
Gillian Gill , who holds a Ph.D. in modern French literature from Cambridge, has taught at Northeastern, Wellesley, Yale, and Harvard. She is the author of Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries and Mary Baker Eddy . She lives in a suburb of Boston. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Books of the World
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000001781
- Title
- Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale
- Author
- Gillian Gill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0345451872
- ISBN 13
- 9780345451873
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- September 2004
- Keywords
- Florence Nightingale, biography, history, health-care, medicine, nurses, nursing, politics, social history, English, British
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science & Technology; Biographies; Europe; Britain;
- Size
- 8vo
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