Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 5

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ............................................................................. ix Dramatis Personae ............................................................................ xi List of Illustrations ............................................................................ xii Florence Nightingale: A Précis of the Collected Works .................... xiii Introduction to Volume 5 ................................................................. 1 Key to Editing .................................................................................... 5 Society: Essays, Letters and Notes on Social Physics and Social Statistics Nightingale’s Quetelet ...................................................................... 11 Marginal Annotations to Physique sociale ............................................ 18 Essay ‘‘In Memoriam’’ ..................................................................... 36 Notes and Letters to Jowett on Quetelet and Probability ................... 68 Hospital Statistics ............................................................................ 74 Analysis of the 1841 Census ............................................................. 92 Proposals for the 1861 Census .......................................................... 95 As Householder in the 1871 Census ................................................. 103 Proposal for a Chair in Social Physics ............................................... 105 Social Policy, Poverty, Poor Law and Charity .................................. 129 ‘‘A Note on Pauperism’’ ................................................................... 129 ‘‘Who Is the Savage?’’ ...................................................................... 159 Relief of Distress .............................................................................. 163 Income Security and Housing for Workers ....................................... 166 Social-Class Issues ............................................................................ 186 Co-operatives versus Trade Unions ................................................... 194 ‘‘Jack O’Darmstadt’’ ........................................................................ 198 Assisted Emigration ......................................................................... 201 Coffee Houses, Workingmen’s Institutes and Temperance ................ 205 Fred Verney’s Clubs for Workingmen ............................................... 210 Crime, Crime-ology, Juvenile Offenders and Prisons ......................... 223 Gender and the Family .................................................................... 231 / v Gordon Boys’ Home ........................................................................ 242 Private Charities and Fundraising .................................................... 256 Politics: Essays, Notes and Letters Government, Public Policy and Elections ....................................... 279 ‘‘Politics and Public Administration’’ ............................................... 279 Social Progress ................................................................................ 290 ‘‘Go Down into Hell Bravely’’ ........................................................... 297 Notes on the Decline of Public Administration ................................. 300 British Imperialism/Foreign Policy .................................................. 316 Elections and Party Politics .............................................................. 329 Elections 1830s-1850s ...................................................................... 330 Elections 1860s ................................................................................ 336 Elections 1870s ................................................................................ 342 1880 Election .................................................................................. 344 Elections 1885 and Later ................................................................. 347 Endorsing Candidates ..................................................................... 360 Political Notables: Letters and Notes ............................................... 369 John Stuart Mill ............................................................................... 369 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert .................................................... 410 William Ewart Gladstone ................................................................. 427 Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton ..................................... 477 General Charles Gordon .................................................................. 490 Liberal and Progressive Politicians ................................................... 512 Viceroys, Governors General of India ............................................... 522 Conservative Politicians ................................................................... 528 Other Political Notables .................................................................. 535 Other Royal Persons ........................................................................ 540 Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature Philosophy ......................................................................................... 551 Jowett’s Dialogues of Plato .................................................................. 551 Other Philosophers, Greek to Modern ............................................. 624 Natural Science ................................................................................. 645 Scientific Method and Discovery ...................................................... 648 Evolution and Heredity ................................................................... 652 Education .......................................................................................... 663 Visit to Oxford University ................................................................ 667 Teaching and Lesson Plans .............................................................. 671 Appointment of a Mistress at Girton College .................................... 683 Lea School ...................................................................................... 690 Literature ........................................................................................... 725 Classical Greek, Roman and Renaissance Authors ............................ 731 vi / Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics Poets and Playwrights ...................................................................... 739 British Novelists and Essayists ........................................................... 763 American Authors ........................................................................... 785 Historians ....................................................................................... 792 Biography of Ellen M. ...................................................................... 800 A Literary Parlour Game ................................................................. 806 Non-human Species, Love of Nature, Birds .................................... 809 Appendixes Appendix A: Biographical Sketches ................................................ 827 L.A.J. Quetelet (1796-1874) ............................................................. 827 (Sir) Edwin Chadwick (1800-90) ...................................................... 828 John Stuart Mill (1806-73) ............................................................... 829 William Farr (1807-91) .................................................................... 831 Adeline Paulina Irby (1838-1911) ..................................................... 832 Appendix B: Chronology .................................................................. 834 Bibliography ...................................................................................... 839 Index .................................................................................................. 849 Contents / vii This page intentionally left blank ...