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fLORENCE nIGHTINGALE
Title: fLORENCE nIGHTINGALE
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 2154 | Pages: 9.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
fLORENCE nIGHTINGALE
Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy in Villa Columbia on May12, 1820. Florence was named after her birth place just like her older sister Parthenope, who has the Greek name of Naples. Florence was the daughter of the wealthy landowner William Nightingale of Embley Park Hampshire, and his wife Francis Nightingale born 1788 who was a sibling of ten children. William was part of the antislavery movement and both William and Francis “Fanny” were Unitarians.
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…showed last 75 words of 2154 total…buried in East Willow, near her home in Embley Park. Her tomb stone reads. “F.N Born 1820 died 1910”
(Cook,1942)
In 1915 the Crimean Monument in Waterloo Place, London, was erected in her honour. Today she is remembered as a symbol of selfless caring and tireless service.
Florence nightingale is synonymous with revolutionising the nursing movement for women, however the public’s perceptions of her achievements remain rudermentry compared to the remarkable accomplishments in her life time.
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