Florence Nightingale - the Nurse Who Became Famous - E-book - Multi-format

This book deals with the life of Florence Nightingale, the famous nurse. Everyone knows the popular conception of Florence Nightingale. The saintly, self-sacrificing woman, the delicate maiden of high degree who threw aside the pleasures of a life of ease to succor the afflicted, the Lady with the Lamp, gliding through the horrors of the hospital at Scutari, and consecrating with the radiance of her goodness the dying soldier's couch-the vision is familiar to all.
But the truth was different.