‘Not a saint’: what was the real story of Florence Nightingale?
The heroic founder of modern nursing, is humanised in a new novel
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.
In Laura Elvery’s debut novel, Nightingale, she is something else entirely.
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