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Nightingale Florence <1820-1910.> |
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Titolo |
Collected works of Florence Nightingale . Volume 11 Florence Nightingale's Suggestions for thought [[electronic resource] /] / Lynn McDonald, editor |
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Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2008 |
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1-282-50156-9 |
9786612501562 |
1-55458-252-0 |
1-4416-4564-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (809 p.) |
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Collana |
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Collected works of Florence Nightingale ; ; v. 11 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Religion |
Ethics |
Women - Great Britain - Social conditions - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Dramatis Personae; List of Illustrations; Florence Nightingale: A PreĢcis of Her Life; Introduction to Volume 11; Introduction to Suggestions for Thought; Key to Editing; Volume 1; Volume 2; Volume 3; Related Texts; Bibliography; Index |
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Florence 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 evang |
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