by Gena K. Gorrell
PRMS hardcover, 135 pages
genre: biography
Interesting book! I have read other articles and a shorter children's biography of Florence Nightingale, but this one was much more informative. She was a very driven woman. One fact that stunned me was "in her lifetime she wrote about thirteen thousand letters, and published some two hundred books, pamphlets, and papers." There were others who were also pushing for reform in the medical field, but she was tireless! And she was an acquaintance of Queen Victoria. Interesting how frustrated Nightingale got by her lack of power in a male-dominated world. Very interesting book. Gorrell does a nice job of blending the story of Florence's life with photographs, documents, and information about other world events at the time. The Crimean War was just once piece of Florence's fight for reforms at a time when many doctors scoffed at the idea of germs.
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