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The friendship of Florence Nightinagle and Mary Clare Moore

Title: The friendship of Florence Nightinagle and Mary Clare Moore / edited by Mary C. Sullivan.
Publication: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

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Description

xii, 226 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Florence Nightingale is best known as a woman of action - a founder of modern nursing, a reformer in the field of public health, and a pioneer in the use of statistics. What is not generally appreciated is that Nightingale was deeply engaged in the religious and philosophical thought of her time and that the primary aim of her life was not to reform social institutions but to serve God."--BOOK JACKET.
"At the heart of The Friendship of Florence Nightingale and Mary Clare Moore are forty-seven letters written by Nightingale to Moore - her "Dearest Reverend Mother" - the founding superior of the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy in Bermondsey, London; ten letters written by Moore to Nightingale, and five letters written by Nightingale about Clare to other Sisters of Mercy.
These letters illustrate the personal lives and spiritual struggles and aspirations of two highly influential women in Victorian England: one working to achieve military and governmental reforms, the other designing and implementing new church-related services to the poor - bound together by their devotion to those who were neglected, by nursing and other skills, by mature Christian faith, and by their engaging affection for one another."--BOOK JACKET.

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Genre/Form

Biography.

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ISBN

0812234898 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98054899

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries