Florence Nightingale 1820 - 1910

The biography that defined how we understand Florence Nightingale, written by one of the great mid-century biographers and winner of the James Tait Black Award. Woodham-Smith had access to family papers that hadn't been seen by previous biographers, and the result is the woman behind the legend: difficult, brilliant, exhausted, transformative. The Lady with the Lamp turned out to be a hospital reformer, statistician and political fighter who reshaped nursing, sanitation and military medicine.