New photo of 'Lady of the Lamp' (Florence Nightingale)

[DoYouEverWonder]

6 August 2006



A previously unseen photograph of Florence Nightingale is going on display to mark the 150th anniversary of her return from the Crimean War.

Taken by amateur photographer William Slater, the picture shows the "lady of the lamp" sitting reading outside her family home in Embley Park, Hampshire.

The newly discovered photograph will go on display until 7 November at the Florence Nightingale Museum in London.

She gained worldwide renown for her work as a nurse during the Crimean War.

The photograph came to light after an article in a local paper about the discovery of three albums of photographs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/5250188.stm

What a beautiful woman.

[xchrom]

1. the timing is a little surreal, no?

[YOY]

2. There's always a war going on somewhere

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[xchrom]

3. yes -- murder and mayhem are a feature of human life --

best to be bland about it.

[rodeodance]

4. yes, lovely. Glad to see. Thanks.

[fleabert]

5. makes me wonder how they hell women got around at all in those damn

skirts. whew. makes me tired to just think about walking with all that fabric, much less being a nurse!

[nealmhughes]

6. I think those things were their "dressup" clothes.

Middle class and upper class women wore them all the time. I doubt any woman in her right mind did while working in the field or facory or even at home or nursing...only those who had to present their class in public and with their "inferiors".

Speaking of fashion, when are we going to wise up to global warming and the fact that all of the West is not at the same climate as Bruxelles or Paris or London? Why are men bound into worsted wool jackets and ties when it is 100F outside and 70% humidity? I'll take my silk summer weight and seersucker any day from March until October, fashion be damned.

[JoFerret]

8. She worked from bed

She worked from bed (not in the Crimea of course.)

[JoFerret]

7. A math genius and obsessive administrator

- she could sort out Iraq supply lines with a mathematical model. With what she did for the military in India imagine her mind with a computer and what she could do for Iraq and Afghanistan. And all while sitting in bed!.

[Lisa]

10. right on, Jo -- she could give modern administrators a lesson ....

... on the effective use of pie charts! She may not have invented them, but she sure rocked when it came to what we now refer to as "data visualization". Her charts are actually more sophisticated than the ones available on most graphing software today. There are so many times when statistics are used to present trivial information, or even to obscure the issue -- her diagrams are literally about life and death. (This one shows that with proper sanitary precautions, disease mortality can be cut to almost zero.)




http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/small.htm

[JoFerret]

12. Thanks for that great link

FN is so often trivialized as the lady-with-the-lamp routine. Nothing at all wrong with great nursing and compassion but FN took both to a whole new and very effective level.

[Raine]

9. Beautiful picture

THANKS for posting it. :thumbsup:

[Straight Shooter]

11. Lovely photo. Thank you for sharing. n/t