Florence Nightingale’s Spiritual Journey: Biblical Annotations, Sermons and Journal Notes: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 2Lynn McDonald Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1 ene 2006 - 598 páginas Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is widely known as the heroine of the Crimean War and the founder of the modern profession of nursing. She was also a scholar and political activist who wrote and worked assiduously on many reform causes for more than forty years. This series will confirm Nightingale as an important and significant nineteenth-century scholar and illustrate how she integrated her scholarship with political activism. Indispensable to scholars, and accessible and revealing to the general reader, it will show there is much more to know about Florence Nightingale than the “lady with the lamp.” Although a life-long member of the Church of England, Nightingale has been described as both a Unitarian and a significan nineteenth-century mystic. Volume 2 begins with an introduction to the beliefs, influences and practices of this complex person. The second and largest part of this volume consists of Nightingale’s biblical annotations, made at various stages of her life (some dated, some not). The third part of volume 2 contains her journal notes, including her diary for 1877, which is published here for the first time. Much of this material is highly personal, even confessional in nature. Some of it is profoundly moving and will serve to show the complexity and power of Nightingale’s faith. 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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... source that prompted and fed activity in the service of God. Since she thought that we could never have too much of that, she lamented lack of recourse to the Spirit: ''Some of the disciples did not so much as know that there was a Holy ...
... source for Nightingale's invective against the ''peace of a good conscience.'' Clearly peace was not necessarily a good thing: How vain are those words! Conscience is a coward . . . who attacks the weak and well intentioned and lets the ...
... source was Nightingale's own files, given to the British Library or St Thomas' Hospital, and are probably drafts or copies she kept. The designation ''letter'' is used only when there is good reason to think that the document was ...
... source), never the editor's. Quotations from the King James Bible are given exactly as they appear (except that periods are added), so that there will be discrepancies in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, etc. between these and ...
... sources or even always be sure whether the passage was of Nightingale's composition or an extract. Every source identified is given, and authors at least are identified if a specific book cannot be. Sometimes Nightingale gave an ...