Parthenope nightingale biography sample

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By Stephen J. Greenberg ~

Some people seem not quite real. Not in the sense that they are imaginary, fictional beings; they existed, and they touched and changed their world and ours. But it is difficult to think of them as plain, walking-around human beings. Their attitudes and accomplishments just seem to be beyond any quotidian matters. George Washington was such a person. Abraham Lincoln was another. And Florence Nightingale, whose 200th birthday is on May 12th, 2020, certainly fits in this category as well.

Nightingale lived to be just past 90, dying in London on August 13, 1910. She was active until the very end, although she was famously an invalid for much of that long life. What is usually recalled (and celebrated) about her fits into five crucial years, from her departure to Scutari in modern day Turkey in 1854, and from there to the battlefront in Russia, to the publication of Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What it is not, in 1859. But her career, and her writing, were only just beginning when she returned to England from the Crimean War.

Portrait of Nightingale in “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it is Not,” 1860 National Library of Medicine #68161130R

Title page of Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it is Not, 1860 Nationa

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Frances Parthenope Verney

English writer and journalist (1819–1890)

Frances Parthenope Verney, Lady Verney (néeNightingale; 19 April 1819 – 12 May 1890),^[1] was an English writer and journalist.

Early life and education

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Frances Parthenope Nightingale was born on May 19, 1819 in Naples, Italy,^[2] during her parents' honeymoon. Parthenope's birth was a rather traumatic one for both Fanny and Parthe. At the time of her birth Fanny was far from home and alone having her first child who was born small and weak.^[3] Within a week after her birth Parthenope was had not gained sufficient weight to survive and she even had begun to throw up blood. After witnessing their daughters rapid decline in health, Fanny and W.E.N. believed their daughter would likely die.^[3] A local doctor was called in to help the baby and, Fanny finally accepted that she would not be able to nurse her child herself and would have to hire a wet-nurse in order to save her child's life.^[3]

Frances Parthenope was named after her Greek name for Naples, Parthenope. Because she shared her first name with her mother, Frances Parthenope was often referred to by her middle name of Parthenope, as well as family nicknames such as "Parthe," and "P

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