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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... address , of marriages , normal and abnormal , etc. The second clause , the numbers and relations of crimes , of acci- dents , of unaddressed letters , of marriages and at what ages , is given us with the utmost possible exactitude , to ...
... [ printed address ] 30 Old Burlington Street , W. 28 April 1861 My dear Sir I venture to send you my paper on hospital statistics with some abstracts added at the end . The Statistical Congress will send it offi- cially to all the ...
... letter . ever yours F.N. Source : Letter , Private Collection of Susan Teagle , copy Wellcome [ printed address ] 35 South Street My dear Dr Farr Park Lane , W. 31 August 1872 You were so good as to ask me for my “ commission ” when you ...
Collected Works of Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald. Source : Letter , Wellcome Ms 5474/40 , typed copy ADD Mss 43399 ff10-12 [ printed address ] 30 Old Burlington Street , W. My dear Dr Farr 9 April 1861 As you ...
Contents
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Essays Notes and Letters | 277 |
Philosophy Science Education and Literature | 549 |
Appendixes | 825 |
Bibliography | 839 |
Index | 849 |