Florence Nightingale : a biography . ticlesin the Times, I undertook to write this volumefor Messrs. Nelson, I knew nothing of the otherbiographies in the field. Nor had I any ideathat an officially authorized life was about to bewritten by Sir Edward Cook, a biographer withan intellectual equipment far beyond my own,but who will not perhaps grudge me the nameof friend, since his courteous considerateness forall leads many others to make a like claim, andthe knowledge that he would put no obstacle inmy path has spared me what might have been aserious difficulty. Had I known all this, a decentm
Florence Nightingale : a biography . ticlesin the Times, I undertook to write this volumefor Messrs. Nelson, I knew nothing of the otherbiographies in the field. Nor had I any ideathat an officially authorized life was about to bewritten by Sir Edward Cook, a biographer withan intellectual equipment far beyond my own,but who will not perhaps grudge me the nameof friend, since his courteous considerateness forall leads many others to make a like claim, andthe knowledge that he would put no obstacle inmy path has spared me what might have been aserious difficulty. Had I known all this, a decentmodesty might have prevented my in every direction unforeseen help has beenshowered upon me, and nothing but my own in-exorable limitations have stood in my way. If there be any who, by their books, or in anyother way, have helped me, but whom by someunhappy oversight I have omitted to name inthese brief documentary thanks, I must earnestlybeg them to believe that such an error is contraryto my intention and The Lady with the Lamp. {from the statuette in the Nightingale Home.) CONTENTS Introductory Chapter . . • .15 I. Florence Nightingale : her home, her birth-place, and her family . .25 II. Life at Lea Hurst and Embley . 41 III. The weaving of many threads, both of evil and of good . . - SS IV. The activities of girlhood—Elizabeth Fry —Felicia Skene again ... 62 V, Home duties and pleasures—The brewing of war ...... 71 VI. Pastor Fliedner , .... 90 VII. Years of preparation . , .101 VIII. The beginning of the war — A sketch of Sidney Herbert . . .117 IX. The Crimean muddle—Explanations and excuses ...,., 134 X CONTENTS. X. Five were wise, and five foolish . 142 XI. The expedition . . , .162 XII. The tribute of Kinglake and Macdonald and the Chelsea Pensioners . .172 XIII. The horrors of Scutari—The victory of the Lady-in-Chief—The Queensletter — Her gift of butter andtreacle ...... 200 XIV. Letters from Scutari—Kinglake on Miss Ni
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