Florence Nightingale's nuns

By Emmeline Garnett

Subjects: Hospitals, charities, Juvenile literature, Crimean War, 1853-1856, Great britain, juvenile literature, Nurses, Civilian relief, Nurses, juvenile literature, Great britain, biography, Nightingale, florence, 1820-1910, Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of Mercy. England, Nightingale, florence, 1820-1910, juvenile literature, Sisters of Mercy (Bermondsey (London, England))

Description: At the age of 24, Florence Nightingale decided to dedicate herself to the care of the sick, especially those wounded in battle. She worked for nearly a year with the nursing Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul in Alexandria, Egypt. After that, when she established a hospital to tend the wounded during the Crimean War (1854 - 1856), she welcomed the assistance of thirty-eight women, including a group of Catholic nuns.