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Preface

Introductory Chapter for the Elders in My Audience

Chapter I. Florence Nightingale: Her Home, Her Birthplace, and Her Family

Chapter II. Life at Lea Hurst and Embley

Chapter III. The Weaving of Many Threads, Both of Evil and of Good

Chapter IV. the Activities of Girlhood—Elizabeth Fry—Felicia Skene Again

Chapter V. Home Duties and Pleasures—The Brewing of War

Chapter VI. Pastor Fliedner

Chapter VII. Years of Preparation

Chapter VIII. the Beginning of the War—A Sketch of Sidney Herbert

Chapter IX. the Crimean Muddle—Explanations and Excuses

Chapter X. “Five Were Wise, and Five Foolish”

Chapter XI. the Expedition

Chapter XII. the Tribute of Kinglake and Macdonald and the Chelsea Pensioners

Chapter XIII. the Horrors of Scutari—The Victory of the Lady-In-Chief—The Queen’s Letter—Her Gift of Butter and Treacle.

Chapter XIV. Letters From Scutari—Kinglake on Miss Nightingale and Her Dynasty—The Refusal of a New Contingent.

Chapter XV. the Busy Nursing Hive—M. Soyer and His Memories—Miss Nightingale’s Complete Triumph Over Prejudice—The Memories of Sister Aloysius.

Chapter XVI. Inexactitudes—Labels—Cholera—“The Lady With the Lamp”—Her Humour—Letters of Sister Aloysius.

Chapter XVII. Miss Nightingale Visits Balaclava—Her Illness—Lord Raglan’s Visit—The Fall of Sebastopol

Chapter XVIII. the Nightingale Fund—Miss Nightingale Remains at Her Post, Organizing Healthy Occupations for the Men Off Duty—Sisters of Mercy—The Queen’s Jewel—Its Meaning.

Chapter XIX. Her Citizenship—Her Initiative—Public Recognition and Gratitude—Her Return Incognito—Village Excitement—The Country’s Welcome—Miss Nightingale’s Broken Health—The Nightingale Fund—St. Thomas’s Hospital—Reform of Nursing as a Profession.

Chapter XX. William Rathbone—Agnes Jones—Infirmaries—Nursing in the Homes of the Poor—Municipal Work—Homely Power of Miss Nightingale’s Writings—Lord Herbert’s Death.

Chapter XXI. Multifarious Work and Many Honours—Jubilee Nurses—Nursing Association—Death of Father and Mother—Lady Verney and Her Husband—No Respecter of Persons—From Within Four Walls—South Africa and America.

Chapter XXII. India—Correspondence With Sir Bartle Frere—Interest in Village Girls—The Lamp

Chapter XXIII. a Brief Summing Up

Footnotes