Florence Nightingale’s Spiritual Journey: Biblical Annotations, Sermons and Journal Notes: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 2Lynn McDonald Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2006 M01 1 - 598 pages Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is widely known as the heroine of the Crimean War and the founder of the modern profession of nursing. She was also a scholar and political activist who wrote and worked assiduously on many reform causes for more than forty years. This series will confirm Nightingale as an important and significant nineteenth-century scholar and illustrate how she integrated her scholarship with political activism. Indispensable to scholars, and accessible and revealing to the general reader, it will show there is much more to know about Florence Nightingale than the “lady with the lamp.” Although a life-long member of the Church of England, Nightingale has been described as both a Unitarian and a significan nineteenth-century mystic. Volume 2 begins with an introduction to the beliefs, influences and practices of this complex person. The second and largest part of this volume consists of Nightingale’s biblical annotations, made at various stages of her life (some dated, some not). The third part of volume 2 contains her journal notes, including her diary for 1877, which is published here for the first time. Much of this material is highly personal, even confessional in nature. Some of it is profoundly moving and will serve to show the complexity and power of Nightingale’s faith. Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary. |
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... Emory University, Pitts Theological Library Archives 13/16/7. 19 E.T. Cook, Life of Florence Nightingale 1:133-34. In 1862 Nightingale asked her friend Benjamin Jowett (1817-93),20 a AnOverview of Nightingale's SpiritualJourney / 11.
... Jowett to receive the eucharist. Nightingale repaid Jowett for his trouble not only by writing sermons for him and advising on his introductions to the Platonic Dialogues, but by introducing him to the mystical writers. It is noteworthy ...
... Jowett to write a theodicy, a justification of the ways of God to humankind. (She liked to use a transliteration of the Greek, theodikè, which combines the words for God and justice and makes the meaning intuitively clear.) Jowett had ...
... Jowett, J.S. Mill (1806-73), Julius Mohl (1800-76), Richard Monckton Milnes,3 Sir John McNeill, her father and her uncle Samuel Smith.4 Mill's reaction was highly favourable; he was intrigued with the originality of the arguments ...
... disputants x x. He had the sort of influence which is 17 Note to Jowett, Add Mss 45784 f182. 18 Note, Add Mss 45783 f179. given by the clear and dispassionate knowledge of other men's 20 / Florence Nightingale's SpiritualJourney.