![]() The tour, long a fixture in the upbringing of any Englishman of means, had been impossible during the decades of the Napoleonic Wars. Her parents were married, in England, in 1817, and promptly left for a combination honeymoon and Grand Tour of Europe. Her parents were well-to-do, educated, and social connected connections that Florence would use to great effect throughout her career. Nightingale was born, it would seem, to lead an unconventional and extraordinary life. Title page of Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it is Not, 1860 National Library of Medicine #68161130R Postcard of Florence Nightingale and Her Sister Parthenope, ca. But her career, and her writing, were only just beginning when she returned to England from the Crimean War. What is usually recalled (and celebrated) about her fits into five crucial years, from her departure to Scutari in modern day Turkey in 1854, and from there to the battlefront in Russia, to the publication of Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What it is not, in 1859. She was active until the very end, although she was famously an invalid for much of that long life. Nightingale lived to be just past 90, dying in London on August 13, 1910. And Florence Nightingale, whose 200th birthday is on May 12th, 2020, certainly fits in this category as well. Their attitudes and accomplishments just seem to be beyond any quotidian matters. ![]() ![]() But it is difficult to think of them as plain, walking-around human beings. ![]() Not in the sense that they are imaginary, fictional beings they existed, and they touched and changed their world and ours. ![]()
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