‘Not a saint’: Florence Nightingale, heroic founder of modern nursing, is humanised in a new novel
- Written by Caitlin Macdonald, PhD candidate, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney
Florence Nightingale is often described as the founder of modern nursing. She was immortalised in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1857 poem, Santa Filomena: “A noble type of good / Heroic Womanhood.” For over a century, she has been remembered as “the lady with the lamp”, moving through the wards of war hospitals.
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