Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend - Brossura

Bostridge, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0140263926 ISBN 13: 9780140263923

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2009

Riassunto

Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography

Mark Bostridge's Florence Nightingale is a masterful and effortlessly enjoyable biography of one of Britain's most iconic heroines.

Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been misrepresented and misunderstood. As the Lady with the Lamp, ministering to the wounded and dying of the Crimean War, she offers an enduring image of sentimental appeal and one that is permanently lodged in our national consciousness. But the awesome scale of her achievements over the course of her 90 years is infinitely more troubling - and inspiring - than this mythical simplification.

From her tireless campaigning and staggering intellectual abilities to her tortured relationship with her sister and her distressing medical condition, this vivid and immensely readable biography draws on a wealth of unpublished material and previously unseen family papers, disentangling the myth from the reality and reinvigorating with new life one of the most iconic figures in modern British history.

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L'autore:

Mark Bostridge won the Gladstone Memorial Prize at Oxford University. His first book Vera Brittain: A Life was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the NCR Non-Fiction Award, and the Fawcett Prize. His books also include the bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation; Lives for Sale, a collection of biographers' tales; Because You Died; and The Fateful Year. England 1914 published in 2014. Florence Nightingale was awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography.

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'Superb' Sunday Times
'Engrossing' History Today
'Excellent' Spectator
'Enthralling' Guardian

WHO WAS THE LADY WITH THE LAMP?
WHERE DID THE LEGEND COME FROM?
AND WHAT WAS THE TRUTH?

From her battles with family, doctors, nurses and the British establishment to her ceaseless work on behalf of the sick, the wounded and the dying, Florence Nightingale, more perhaps than any other modern historical figure, has been misrepresented by history. Mark Bostridge's enthralling Florence Nightingale sets the record straight about the most passionate and determined woman of the Victorian age.

'Brilliantly evoked . . . It is hard to imagine how one might improve upon Bostridge's masterly understanding of the costs, trials and triumphs of [Nightingale's life]' Sunday Times

'Gripping and faultless' Observer, Books of the Year

'Remarkable. A subtle, scholarly and immensely readable portrait. Scrupulous, thoughtful and clear-eyed. A masterly achievement' Financial Times

'It will not be superseded for generations to come' Sunday Telegraph

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• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0140263926
• ISBN 13: 9780140263923
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 704