Please Help, Miss Nightingale!

Stewart Ross

Description

Mixing fiction with facts

Sujets

• History
• Fiction
• HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I
• Victorian era
• Florence Nightingale

Informations

• Publié par: Read Zone
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783227600
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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PLEASE HELP, MISS NIGHTINGALE!
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First published in this edition 2015

© copyright in the text Stewart Ross, 1997
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First published 1997 by Evans Brothers Ltd

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PLEASE HELP,
MISS NIGHTINGALE!
Stewart Ross
CONTENTS
TO THE READER

THE STORY SO FAR

TIME LINE

PORTRAIT GALLERY

Chapter 1 | ‘MY MIND IS MADE UP’
Florence Nightingale decides to help in the British army hospital at Scutari.

Chapter 2 | ‘POOR LITTLE BEASTIE!’
Florence gets ready for her journey. She finds it difficult to get good nurses.

Chapter 3 | TIP TOP!
Florence arrives at Scutari. The army does not want her there.

Chapter 4 | PLEASE HELP!
The hospital staff cannot cope. The commander asks Florence to help.

Chapter 5 | ‘A BLOOMIN’ SAINT!’
Florence beings her work. The patients think she is wonderful.

Chapter 6 | GOD’S WILL
Cholera strikes Scutari hospital and hundreds of patients die. The government refuses to help.

Chapter 7 | ‘I DON’T BELIEVE IT!’
Inspectors arrive from England. They do not believe what they find.

Chapter 8 | THE SOLDIERS’ FRIEND
Scutari hospital is cleaned up. Florence is cheered by the soldiers in the Crimea.

THE HISTORY FILE

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