Identifier: lifeofflorenceni02cook (find matches)
Title: The life of Florence Nightingale
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir, 1857-1919
Subjects: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 Nurses
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co., limited, St. Martin's Street
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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room, says one visitor, but there was very little in itbeside the necessary furniture, which was neat, but cheapand simple, except a few pieces which had come fromEmbley and Lea Hurst. A large arm-chair, in which MissNightingale would sometimes sit, stood between two of thethree windows. There were few pictures on the walls—aphotograph of Lord Lawrences portrait, a water-colour ofan Egyptian sunset, and one or two other gifts. The twothings of most meaning were a long chromolithograph of the ground about Sebastopol, as she called it in her Will ^—this was opposite her on the right; and, on the mantelpiece,exactly facing her bed, a framed chromolithographed text, It is I. Be not afraid. The drawing-room was loftierand more severe, and on the walls were some fine engravingsand photographs of the Sistine ceiling. There were manybookcases in the drawing-room, the back drawing-room, and ^ She directed her executors to place it, with other Crimean memorials, where soldiers may see them.
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