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PublisherWilfrid Laurier University Press
ISBN-100889204659
ISBN-139780889204652
eBay Product ID (ePID)56999270
Product Key Features
Number of Pages816 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFlorence Nightingale's Suggestions for Thought : Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 11
SubjectWomen, Cultural Heritage, Social History, Medical
Publication Year2008
TypeTextbook
AuthorLynn McDonald
Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, History
SeriesCollected Works of Florence Nightingale Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height2.1 in
Item Weight45.9 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.5 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Reviews''The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale is an extremely ambitious project that is a great service to scholarship. Every general academic library should own the complete set. It pulls together material that has been hitherto diffused across more than 150 collections, some of them private ones, in places ranging from Germany to India and Japan, as well as numerous English-speaking countries.'', ''Justly famous as the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale's fame has endured from the 1950s until today. The two books under review here provide ample evidence as to why this should be so. As both author and editor Lynn McDonald has spent much of her professional career probing virtually every aspect of Nightingale's ninety years of life. And what an amazingly productive life it was, which Nightingale's sixteen-volume Collected Works --edited principally by McDonald--makes clear. But if the received public image of Nightingale continues to be that of the "Lady of the Lamp," then both her own Suggestions for Thought and McDonald's short biography--published to mark the centenary of Nightingale's death--show her to have been a hard-headed, clear-thinking reformer, in addition to a heroic nurse.... The Nightingale project ranks with both the Gladstone diaries and the Disraeli letters as a major undertaking in the field of Victorian-era scholarship, and therefore is of surpassing value to historians of the period, as well as to general readers.'', ''Lynn McDonald's work as series editor is a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship, both here in the printed form and in the planned electronic publication and database that will follow.... This is Volume 11...[which] includes some previously published material... Suggestions for Thought . The editorial introduction outlines the genesis and early printing of the text.... [Nightingale] had firm ideas on the format of the text, demanding that parts of it be printed in narrow columns, leaving the adjacent space for reader annotations and comments. It is not printed in columns in the current volume, and the contemporary annotations are shown here as footnotes, but it remains a complext text to follow. There are 'Related Texts' in an appendix, with cross-references. It cannot have been an easy editorial task, and indeed McDonald notes the difficulty of following Nightingale's back and forth debate, for example on 'Man's Will and God's Law,' literally inscribed on the manuscript, with public health expert Dr John Sutherland. That it is done with such painstaking care in this volume is to the credit of the current editor and publisher.''
Series Volume Number11
Number of Volumes16 vols.
Volume NumberVol. 11
IllustratedYes
SynopsisFlorence Nightingale's Suggestions for Thought has intrigued readers from feminist-philosopher J.S. Mill (who used it in his The Subjection of Women ) to the latest generation of women's activists. Although selections from this long work have been published, Lynn McDonald is the first editor to work through the numerous surviving drafts of Nightingale's writing and present it as a complete volume. Suggestions for Thought contains two early attempted novels, draft sermons, and a lengthy fictional dialogue featuring St. Ignatius, founder of the Jesuits, the American evangelical Jacob Abbott, and British agnostic Harriet Martineau (with cameo appearances by Protestant reformer John Calvin and the poet Shelley) all against an unnamed "M.S." The most famous section of Suggestions for Thought is the essay Cassandra, famous as a rant against the family for stifling womens aspirations. Here the printed text is shown with the original novel draft alongside. McDonald's introductions to each section provide historical context and Nightingales later views of the work. 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., Florence Nightingale's Suggestions for Thought has intrigued readers from feminist-philosopher J.S. Mill to the latest generation of women's activists. Although selections from this work have been published, Lynn McDonald is the first editor to work through the numerous surviving drafts and present it as a complete volume.
LC Classification NumberRT37
