Florence Nightingale
Saturday 10 October
Castle Hill Baptist Church
4.30pm
Florence Nightingale, born in 1820, led a very unusual life for a woman of her class and time: highly educated, speaking several languages and tremendously well-travelled, she rejected her wealthy family’s social status, believing she had a vocation from God to nurse.
In 1854, during the Crimean War, she and a highly disciplined group of 38 nurses cared for the wounded and dying, bringing a new respectability to nursing. Florence was also a statistician, the first woman to be elected to the Society of Statisticians – her data collection and analysis in nursing practices brought forward new ideas that inform modern nursing.
Independent and never married, she became an icon of the Victorian period and nursing profession. The ‘Lady with the Lamp’. This is her extraordinary story, brought to life by Lesley Smith.
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Tickets £20.00
includes refreshments
