Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature: Collected Works of Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale’s work on the methodology of social science and her views on social reform. Here we see how she took her “call to service” into practice: by first learning how the laws of God’s world operate, one can then determine how to intervene for good. There is material on medical statistics, the census, pauperism and Poor Law reform, the need for income security measures and better housing, on crime, gender and the family. Her comments on a new edition of The Dialogues of Plato are given, with their impact on the revision of the next edition. We see Nightingale’s condemnation of Plato’s “community of wives,” with her stirring approval of love (even outside marriage!), marriage and the family. In this volume also her views on natural science, education and literature are reported. Nightingale was an astute behind-the-scenes political activist. Society and Politics publishes (much of it for the first time) her correspondence with such leading political figures as Queen Victoria, W.E. Gladstone and J.S. Mill. There are notes and essays on public administration and personal observations on various members of royalty, prime ministers and ministers, and Indian viceroys. Nightingale’s support of the vote for women (contrary to much in the secondary literature) is here shown. Correspondence and notes on British general elections from 1834 to 1900 is reported, with letters to and for (Liberal) political candidates and fierce condemnations of Conservatives. Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary. |
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... Commons , pray command me . I wrote both to Lord Grey and to Lord Shaftesbury yesterday . The former answers as you see . If the bill goes up to the " Lords ... House of Lords . yours sincerely F. Nightingale Source : From a letter to Dr Farr ...
... House of Commons or out - but have their opposites asserted with equal positiveness . I have no time to make my letter any shorter , although these are but a very few instances . What is wanted is that so high an authority as Mr Francis ...
... House of Commons at the Opposition and vice versa . Why ? Because though the great majority of Cabinet ministers , of the Army , of the executive of both Houses of Parliament , have received a univer- sity education , what has the ...
... House of Commons . What should you think of a manu- facturer who kept his accounts and statistics in the neatest and most perfect manner , but made no use of them as to what manufactures were sold , what are the markets of the world ...
... House of Commons (Mr Cor- rance's motion). Source: Letter, Wellcome Ms 7204 unnumbered and Wellcome (Claydon copy) Ms 9003/69 [printed address] 35 South Street Park Lane, W. 4 January 1869 My dear Sir Harry [Verney] You have often ...
Contents
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Essays Notes and Letters | 277 |
Philosophy Science Education and Literature | 549 |
Appendixes | 825 |
Bibliography | 839 |
Index | 849 |