In this Book
- Florence Nightingale’s European Travels: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 7
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
This seventh volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale consists of letters, observations, and notes from Florence Nightingale’s many trips to Europe, beginning with a family journey when she was a teenager. It includes annotations she made on opera libretti from her “music mad” phase and her winter in Rome (1847-48) which were so important in shaping her liberal politics and support for independence movements. Her letters and notes from Greece and central Europe in 1850, and her Kaisers- werth stay in 1851, reveal her developing ideas on social reform, as well as her first professional training. Materials from 1853 provide information on her training in Paris hospitals. Volume 7 also contains letters and observations from her excursions to Scotland, Ireland, and all over England, from her childhood on.
Many of the letters in European Travels were uncatalogued items buried in archives and will be new to Nightingale scholars. The information gathered in this volume adds considerably to what can be learned about the formative influences in Nightingale’s life, politics, and 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.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. iii-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Dramatis Personae
- p. ix
- Introduction to Volume 7
- pp. 1-4
- Key to Editing
- pp. 5-8
- European Trip, 1837-39
- Nice, 1837
- pp. 11-14
- Italy, 1838
- pp. 14-32
- Geneva, 1838
- pp. 32-44
- Paris 1838-39
- pp. 44-62
- Recollections of France, 1840s
- pp. 59-62
- Travels in France and Italy, 1847-48
- France, 1847, En Route to Rome
- pp. 63-78
- Rome, Winter of 1847-48
- pp. 78-296
- France, 1848, on Return from Rome
- pp. 296-315
- Letters on Italian and Austrian Politics
- pp. 315-328
- France En Route to Egypt, 1849
- pp. 328-329
- Malta (picture plates follow)
- pp. 339-340
- Later Reminiscences of Italy
- pp. 341-349
- Greece, 1850
- pp. 351-440
- Later Letters and Notes on Greece
- pp. 440-441
- Travels En Route to Kaiserswerth, 1850
- Vienna, Prague and Dresden, 1850
- pp. 445-460
- Berlin, Hamburg and Pyrmont, 1850
- pp. 460-485
- Kaiserswerth
- Kaiserswerth, 1850
- pp. 489-513
- Kaiserswerth, 1851
- pp. 513-581
- Travels in England, Scotland and Ireland
- London, South of England, 1828 to 1840s
- pp. 604-674
- Water Cures, Malvern and Umberslade
- pp. 675-683
- Other Midlands Travels
- pp. 684-702
- Ireland, 1852
- pp. 708-718
- Paris Visit, 1853
- pp. 719-758
- Other Letters and Notes on France
- pp. 758-764
- The Channel Tunnel
- pp. 764-766
- Appendix: Biographical Sketches
- pp. 771-776
- Bibliography
- pp. 777-779
Additional Information
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