

Florence Nightingale
Author: Laura E. Richards
Narrator: Anna Fields
Unabridged: 3 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 08/03/2010
Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Biographical
Author: Laura E. Richards
Narrator: Anna Fields
Unabridged: 3 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 08/03/2010
Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Biographical
Laura E. Richards (1850–1943), a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, was born in Boston to eminent parents: Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, founder of the Perkins School for the Blind, and Julia Ward Howe, social reformer and lyricist of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” In 1871, she married Henry Richards (1848–1949), architect and industrialist, and moved with him to Gardiner, Maine. Following the example of her parents, she brought about many social reforms and civic improvements in her hometown. She also wrote more than ninety works, mostly in the fields of children’s literature (to please her children) and biography. Captain January (1890), a bestseller, was twice made into a movie, the second time starring Shirley Temple. Her two-volume biography of her mother, Julia Ward Howe (1915), was the first biography to be honored by a Pulitzer Prize.
For a book that's 110+ years old, it's held up pretty darn well. At the beginning, it's extremely heavy on narrative and light on facts, but it becomes quite engrossing. Needless to say, Florence Nightingale was a bad ass.......more
Enlightening story, though I do wish they went into more detail about the Crimean War.......more
Just a quick read about one of the most important women ever who caused paradigm shifts that created the safety of patient care and the field of nursing.......more
Me acerqué a esta biografía de Florence Nightingale por el interés en su autora, entre las mujeres escritoras galardonadas con el Pulitzer en los primeros años de historia del premio, y por conocer más sobre un icono de mujer victoriana, capaz de sublimar las virtudes del “ángel del hogar” en la gue......more