Florence Nightingale
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Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean
Nightingale, c. 1860
Embley Park in Hampshire, now a school, one of the family homes of William Nightingale, seen in 2007
Young Florence Nightingale
Painting of Nightingale by Augustus Egg, c. 1840s
Frances Parthenope Verney
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Frances Parthenope Verney, Lady Verney, was an English writer and journalist.
Florence Nightingale
…Florence, where her parents, William Edward Nightingale and Frances "Fanny" (née Simith), were staying during a European tour. Like her older sister Frances Parthenope, who had been named partly after Parthenope, the Greek settlement on the site of Naples, Nightingale was named after her birthplace. The family returned…
Frances Parthenope Verney
A portrait created of Mrs. Frances Nightingale and her daughter Frances Parthenope and Florence Nightingale.
Depiction of Florence Nightingale by Frances Parthenope Verney.
The Lea Hurst property of the Nightingale family.