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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... ........................................................... 369 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert .................................................... 410 William Ewart Gladstone .......................................
... Queen Elizabeth II for per- mission to use material from the Royal Archives . All sources actually used in this volume , from a total of over 150 archives and private collec- tions world wide , are indicated at the apropriate place . To ...
... Queen Victoria ( and Prince Albert ) , W.E. Gladstone , General Gordon and John Stuart Mill . Nightingale's correspondence with Mill has been published before , and is here republished , now for the first time with notes on the rela ...
... say 1857 , and of the remainings at the end of 1858 ( a full year ) . 54 Sir James Paget ( 1814-99 ) , surgeon to Queen Victoria . 1. Age Also , the Admissions 2. Sex } Discharge 76 / FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ON SOCIETY AND POLITICS.
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Contents
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Essays Notes and Letters | 277 |
Philosophy Science Education and Literature | 549 |
Appendixes | 825 |
Bibliography | 839 |
Index | 849 |