Author: Florence Nightingale
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Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 091267055X
Cassandra: Florence Nightingale's Angry Outcry Against the Forced Idleness of Victorian Women
The world knows Florence Nightingale as "the lady with the lamp"-the revered founder of nursing as a respectable profession for women. Medical books Cassandra. But few people are aware that Nightingale's career began only after years of struggle to free herself from her suffocating Victorian family Medical books .
But few people are aware that Nightingale's career began only after years of struggle to free herself from her suffocating Victorian family. In this surprisingly passionate feminist essay (a "brilliant polemic," states Martha Vicinus), Nightingale denounces the lives of idleness she and other women of her class were forced to lead.
Medical Book Cassandra
But few people are aware that Nightingale's career began only after years of struggle to free herself from her suffocating Victorian family. In this surprisingly passionate feminist essay (a "brilliant polemic," states Martha Vicinus), Nightingale denounces the lives of idleness she and other women of her class were forced to lead.
