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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Part of a biographical series which uses photographs and narrative to show the life and work of notable men and women and their effect on today's world, this title explores the story of Florence Nightingale, the Lady with the Lamp, her fight to challenge people's attitudes towards women, and her innovative approach to nursing the sick. ... Read more

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Publisher: CassellPublication date: 1887Subjects: Biography ... Read more

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Publisher: Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran ... Read more

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With 48 Photos from the Stageplay

A Play with the Power of a Novel

Crimea, 1854: Having botched the Charge of the Light Brigade, Lord Cardigan is hiding on his yacht, drinking himself into stupor. On the shore, at the hospital corps, a mutiny is brewing. Egotistic doctors, brutish surgeons and skittish nurses wage mind wars against each other amidst filth and chaos.

Florence Nightingale, the legendary "Lady with a Lamp" - a saint to her patients and a frigid spinster to her colleagues - finds solace in the company of Tom Grant, a haggard physician with a sinister reputation. Trading grim jokes and scientific facts, the two develop a cerebral romance that promises to mark a new era for English medicine. Inevitably, Tom's semi-criminal past surfaces, throwing him in the political crossfire between Lords Cardigan and Lucan.

Following on Marina Julia Neary's supurb novel, Wynfield's Kingdom, this is a play that is as much of a delight to read as it is to see on stage.

"With veracious historic grit and not-ever so proper Victorian perspective, Lady with a Lamp depicts Florence Nightingale's Crimean War experiences through the eyes of the small-minded and blood-guilty characters surrounding her."Diane L. LaSalaDirector of Lady with a Lamp

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A lamp that sheds light into the unsounded heart of a great woman
"Lady With A Lamp" is an imaginative take on the unknown or obscure aspects of the life of one of most beloved figures of the 19th century: Florence Nightingale.
Set against the blood-spattered background of the Crimean War, throbbing with the reek of chloroform, woven around the poignant relationship between Florence Nightingale & Tom Grant, a doctor of the British Army, "Lady With A Lamp" integrates a scathing tale of love, longing & loneliness, with one of themost infamous & colossal failures of recent military history: the Charge of the Light Brigade.
Marina Julia Neary draws aside the curtains of saintliness & altruism hung around the great historical figure of Nightingale, & unveils the WOMAN beneath the NURSE, the HUMAN BEING beneath the SAINT, the COMPLEXITY beneath the CLICHE.
In other words, "Lady..." is a work of profound compassion & earthiness: a work which refuses to deny fallibility to greatness, imperfection to sublimity, humanity to heroism.
And yet, it pays tribute to that fallibility, and raises the question: is THIS fallibility, fallibility at all?
The orthodox conception of greatness, of virtue, & commitment to justice itself, are implicitly called into question -- and viewed from a different, more gritty perspective.

Neary's impressive talent as a writer consists in rendering the TENDER without being SENTIMENTAL, the TRAGIC without being MUSHY, and the PAINFUL without being PATHETIC.
While most modern writers' efforts NOT to be melodramatic are excruciatingly evident, Neary accomplishes her task of rendering blind adoration, vindictive anger, sniveling swinishness, & profound pain -- without melodrama -- EFFORTLESSLY.
This is what impresses the reader with the sheer REALITY of the whole narrative, and is testament to the immense talent of this wonderful author.

After reading this play, Florence Nightingale emerges as more than a cardboard stock-figure of a self-sacrificing social worker: she's a woman who has to face life-&-death choices WITHIN HER OWN CONSCIENCE; who must act against CONVENTIONAL morality; & must take upon herself a burden which few would associate with the stereotypical "humanitarian".
One of my favorite characters, I must add, was that of Rebecca Prior: the consummate bimbo, or as they'd put it in archaic idiom: the consummate WENCH -- who knows precisely what choice & what action will bring her the best advantage, & when: and who proves, after all, that bimboes are NOT DUMB!

5 stars any day!!!

Great Play, Great Book
I had the pleasure recently to view a live on stage production of "Lady With a Lamp."The acting was superb, especially Marina's husband Walt who played Lucan.A must read for anyone interested in the Crimean War.From the start the reader will be amused by the sardonic back and forth between Florance and Grant, Horrified by the inhumanity of Lucan and Bennentt, and tickled by the antics of Rebecca and Cardigan.

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Exploring the life of the famous nurse, Florence Nightingale, from her childhood through to her final years, this text encourages readers to discuss the unusual decisions which Florence made as a young woman, and how these led her to provide care during the Crimean War. ... Read more

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A chronological account of Florence Nightingale's life as seen through her writings on a wide variety of topics of relevance to nursing during her lifetime and still pertinent today. It gives a portrait of an influential, far-seeing but sometimes contradictory woman of physical and mental energy who had the ability to get others to work for her. The book is intended to be an inexpensive pocket-sized volume that will interest nurses at all levels. ... Read more

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The National Literacy Strategy emphasises that children with special educational needs should work, wherever possible, with their peers within the Literacy Hour. The aim is to use structured, intensive teaching to enable as many children as possible eventually to work at the appropriate level for their age. The Take-Off! series is designed to be used with children of about 9 who are struggling to achieve the levels of literacy expected for their age. The titles chosen have been based on best-selling titles within existing Heinemann Library series and meet all KS2 requirements for their subject. ... Read more

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'She was emotional, she was vain, she was incomparable. She was a passionate cultivator of new ideas on the compost-heap of long rotted ones. She had a genius for rubbing noses into facts right in front of them. She had infinite capability and little tenderness. Her antiseptic ghost today haunts every sickbed in the world, to which she was Britain's most valuable and useful gift.'

This harsh and gritty story of Florence Nightingale does little to perpetuate the myth of the gentle lady of the lamp. Instead, through the eyes of his impassioned narrator, Richard Gordon lays bare the truth of this complex and chilling character. ... Read more