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THE ANGEL OF THE CRIMEA
THE ANGEL OF THE CRIMEA
A STORT FOR TOUNG PEOPLE BY
LAURA E. RICHARDS
AUTHOR OF "CAPTAIN JANUARY," "THE GOLDEN WINDOWS," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
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Copyright, 1909, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed iu tlie Unftetl ISfafi?! *6f* Atnerica
TO THE SISTER ELEANOR
OF THE SISTERHOOD OF SAINT MARY
HERSELF THROUGH MANY LONG YEARS A DEVOTED
WORKER FOR THE POOR, THE SICK, AND THE
SORROWFUL, THIS BRIEF RECORD OF AN
HEROIC LIFE IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED
For the material used in this little book I am chiefly indebted to Sarah A. Tooley's "Life of Florence Nightingale," and to Kinglake's "Invasion of the Crimea."
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I.— How Florence Got Her Name — Her Three
Homes i
III. — The Squire's Daughter 19
V. — Waiting for the Call 40
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IX. — The Barrack Hospital 75
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XIII. — Miss Nightingale Under Fire... 129
XIV. — The Close of the War 143
XV. — The Tasks of Peace 159
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE,
HOW FLORENCE GOT HER NAME HER THREE
HOMES.
NE evening, some time after the great Crimean War of 1854-55, a company of military and naval officers met at dinner in London. They were talking over the war, as soldiers and sailors love to do, and somebody said: " Who, of all the workers in the Crimea, will be longest remembered? "
Each guest was asked to give his opinion on this point, and each one wrote a name on a slip of paper. There were many slips, but when they came to be examined there was only one name, for every single man had v^ritten " Florence Nightingale."
Every English boy and girl knows the beautiful story of Miss Nightingale's life. Indeed, hers is perhaps the best-loved name in England since good Queen Victoria died. It will be a great pleasure to me to tell this story to our own boys and girls in this country; and it shall begin, as all proper stories do, at the beginning.
Her father was named William Nightingale. He was an English gentleman, and in the year 1820 was living in Italy with his wife. Their first child was born in Naples, and they named her Parthenope, that being the ancient name of Naples; two years later, when they were living in Florence, another little girl came to them, and they decided to name her also after the city of her birth.
When Florence was still a very little child her parents came back to England to live, bringing the two children with them. First they went to a house called Lea Hall, in Derbyshire. It was an old, old house of gray stone, standing on a hill, in meadows full of buttercups and clover. All about were blossoming hedgerows full of wild roses, and great elder-bushes heavy with white blossoms; and on the hillside below it lies the quaint old village of Lea with its curious little stone houses.
Lea Hall is a farmhouse now, but it still has its old flag-paved hall and its noble staircase of oak with twisted balustrade, and broad solid steps where little Florence and her sister " Parthe " used to play and cr