Perfect for children aged 8+, this accessible biography of Florence
Nightingale's life shows us why we still remember her today - 200
years after her birth (May 1820). Not only did Florence improve the
lives of British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War, but as a
professional and hard-working, extremely clever public-health
reformer she led the establishment of a training school for nurses,
better designed hospitals, improved sanitation and the idea of
healthcare for all (leading eventually to the NHS). All this at a
time when girls and women were expected to live their lives in the
private sphere of marriage and home. The book is packed with images
of objects, photographs and sketches to illuminate her life story,
including her pet owl, her wooden lunchbox and her travelling
medicine chest. Then there are her books, and her endless lists and
reports (she was fantastic with statistics), and of course the
famous Turkish lantern she bought from a market in Istanbul and
used to light her way down the corridors and wards of the military
hospital at Scutari.
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