Florence Nightingale, the nurse who became famous for her efforts as ‘the Lady Of the Lamp’ during the Crimean War died one hundred years ago on 13th August.
She was offered a burial in Westminster Abbey but her relatives declined this honour, preferring to inter her remains near those of her parents at St Margaret’s Church in East Wellow, Hampshire.
One of the great iconic figures of nursing, a chapel in Westminster Abbey with a stained glass window bearing the image of a nurse was named in her honour earlier this year.
I wanted to post this on Friday obviously and it would have contained a little more detail about the great lady herself but I’m still not up to typing too much today.
Ruf may not have been a conventional lady of the lamp but, thanks to his efforts, I am now, fingers crossed, on the mend.
It’s interesting, despite being a feminist touchstone, I remember reading somewhere that she was mildly misogynistic, even referring to herself as a man from time to time.
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May you get well soon.
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