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Homes can be both comforting and troubling places. This timely book proposes a new understanding of Florence Nightingale

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Florence Nightingale at Home
3030465330, 9783030465339

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Paul Crawford
Anna Greenwood
Richard Bates
Jonathan Memel

Table of contents :
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Authors
Outline Timeline
List of Figures
1 Home Sweet Home?
Sweet Home: The Victorian Ideal
Theories of Home
Florence Nightingale at Home
2 Childhood Homes
Derbyshire: Home of the Nightingale Fortune
Homes Fit for a Gentleman
Lea Hurst
Embley
Home School
Household Management
3 Leaving Home
‘Cassandra’: Home as Prison
Marriage Prospects
Parthenope: The Sister Who Stayed at Home
Home Both Constrains and Enables
4 Health at Home
Family Practices of Home Visiting
Notes on Nursing
District Nursing: The Return of the Lady Visitor?
5 Homely Institutions
Homely Institutions and the Quest for ‘Respectable’ Nurses
The ‘Motherhouse’: Kaiserswerth
Putting the House in Order: The Establishment for Gentlewomen During Illness
Home Sisters, Mother-Chief: The Nightingale School and Nightingale Home
‘A Real Home, Within Reach of Their Work, for the Nurses to Live In’
6 Home Front
Enthusiasms at Home
‘Practical Experience’
‘A Few Creature Comforts’
The Lady with the Lamp
Homecoming
7 Working from Home
Brucellosis and New Ways of Working
Nightingale’s London Homes
Nightingale’s Work on India
Empire as Home
Nightingale the Empire Builder?
The Limits of Bedroom Imperialism
8 Spiritual Home
Households of Faith
Heavenly Homes and House Tombs
9 Afterlife
Bibliography
Index

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