Florence Nightingale’s Spiritual Journey: Biblical Annotations, Sermons and Journal Notes: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 2Lynn McDonald 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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Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 2 Lynn McDonald. them, prayed for them, contributed her own money and ... prayers probably were said. It is noteworthy that the Fliedners asked Nightingale to be godmother to their son, Carl ...
... prayers along with running her ''business,'' as she called doing God's work. With fellow believers she was frank in her expression of faith; many of her close collaborators indeed were believers whose sometimes effusive prayers appear ...
... prayers and blessings. But God sends, Christ sends, His Holy Spirit.''29 Because she slept badly Nightingale often began her prayers ''a great while before day,'' finding that ''the Spirit'' in my ''solitary place'' seems praying ''with ...
... prayer of a dying medieval mystic for its absence both of ''intercession'' and ''atonement by another's merits ... prayers when the Anglican prayer book was revised. A communion liturgy at the Canadian General Synod 1998 is typical in ...
... prayers, Bible reading and church attendance. Presumably her mother encouraged all this, and certainly Nightingale saw her mother as a devout churchwoman. She commented favourably on her mother's activities in visiting and praying with ...