Physical description

Book with dustjacket. Book has a black cover, with title, author's name, publisher's name and mark embossed in gold on spine. Dust jacket has a black background, with title and author's name printed in red on front and spine. Also, on the front of the dust jacket is a black and white photograph of a woman with dark hair wearing a lace cap and collar (Florence Nightingale by Claudius Erskine Goodman)

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

At the bottom right of the front end-page is a printed black and white donation sticker: black Maltese cross in circle, "This book was donated to Alfred Archival Association Nursing Division by'. Marjorie Connor (handwritten in black ink along with the previous catalogue number) At the bottom of the contents page is a rectangular sticker on which is printed "The Welcome Institute series in the history of medicine. Edited by W.F.Bynum and Roy Porter, The Welcome Institute

Summary

This is a study based on research into the records of the Nightingale Fund and how it was used to finance various experiments in nursing and midwifery training in the nineteenth century. It traces the development of nurse training and discusses problems that beset a fledgling profession.