Sarah RidleyFlorence Nightingale
Social Reformer and Pioneer of Nursing
Sarah Ridley has an enduring interest in history, the natural world and many other topics, which has made her work as an editor and writer of children's information books endlessly fascinating. Some of her books have been shortlisted or longlisted for information book awards, including Dear Jelly: Family Letters from the First World War and Suffragettes and the Fight for the Vote. Sarah lives in Colchester with her husband and her student daughter's guinea pigs.
1: The lady, the lamp and the letters
1: Why is she called Florence?
1: Education fit for a boy
1: Good works, good daughter
1: To marry, or not?
1: Nursing at las
1: War!
1: Scutari Hospital
1: The nurses
1: Lady with the lamp
1: Soldiers still dying
1: Visiting the field hospitals
1: Alexis Soyer and Mary Seacole
1: The war ends
1: Nightingale nurses
1: Letters ... 14,000 of them
1: Hospitals
1: Nurses for all
1: Family and later life
1: What did Florence Nightingale do for us?
1: Timeline
1: Glossary
1: Further information
1: Index