The Wonder (novel)
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The Wonder is a 2016 novel by Irish-Canadian novelist Emma Donoghue.
The Wonder
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
The Wonder (novel)
…Giller Prize. It was also adapted into a 2022 film of the same name directed by Sebastián Lelio. In the 1850s, Lib Wright, an English nurse trained by Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, accepts a mysterious job in Ireland. Lib comes to realize that she and a nun have been hired to watch over an 11-year-old child…
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