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Books from the Library of Hugh Small, author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel, to whom we are grateful for information and quotes used in the text.
NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE) Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, FIRST EDITION, 1860; and 3 other association copies including a book inscribed by Florence Nightingale and Harriet Martineau's copy of one of her own books (4)
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NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)
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A fine group of association copies, comprising: a first edition of Notes on Nursing from the library of a descendant of Richard Monckton Milnes, Florence Nightingale's persistent but ultimately rejected suitor; Francis Galton, Hereditary Genius, from the same library; a book inscribed by 'Aunt Florence' as a wedding gift for Mary Urith F. Coltman (1869-1930, younger daughter of her first cousin Bertha), who was an active supporter of district nursing and founder of the Queen's Nursing chapter in Fulham; and Harriet Martineau's own copy of England and Her Soldiers, a work "Written to help Miss Nightingale" (Leslie Stephen in DNB), in fact ghosted and subsidised by Nightingale to popularise her theory that Scutari was a death-camp.





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