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Florence Nightingale
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Mrs Trimmer : New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a General Outline of the Roman HIstory
"Florence Nightingale's copy of Mrs. Trimmer's New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a General Outline of the Roman History (1818) has Nightingale's autograph in pencil on a flyleaf ... and pencilled marks -- an 'x' or an 'A' at the ends of chapters to show how far she had got with her reading."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Nightingale Print: Book
Harriet Martineau : The Hour and the Man
Florence Nightingale to Jane Martineau, 29 June 1876: 'I have thought of "The Hour and the Man" as the finest historical romance in any language. You would wonder if you knew how often I have read it over and over again, even in the last two years.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Nightingale Print: Book
Christian Charles Josias, Baron von Bunsen :
'She [Florence Nightingale] never reads any books now. she has not time for it, to begin with; and secondly she says life is so vivid that books seem poor. The latter volumes of Bunsen are the only books that she even looked into here'.
