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Introduction to the Florence Nightingale Letters

Photograph of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople.  She gave nursing a favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night.

 
 
 

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Created by Barbara Tysinger and Lynn Eades, Health Sciences Library at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Libraries
Last updated: November 9, 2022