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- Title
WRITING AS FEMALE NATIONAL AND IMPERIAL RESPONSIBILITY: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S SCHEME FOR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL REFORMS IN ENGLAND AND INDIA.
- Authors
Ichikawa, Chieko
- Abstract
Florence Nightingale, who became a national heroine after the Crimean War, was the most popular subject in hagiographical collective biographies of women during the mid- and late-1850s. However, her life can be regarded as a resolute resistance to conformity with the ideal of womanhood in the Victorian era. She recognised the chasm between her popularity and reality: Good public! It knew nothing of what I was really doing in the Crimea.Good public! It has known nothing of what I wanted to do & have done since I came home. (Private note from 1857; Nightingale, Ever Yours 177–78) This statement implies the resistance to the misrepresentation of her, which is indicative of her inner struggle to search for a means to express her vision.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; INDIA; NIGHTINGALE, Florence, 1820-1910; WOMEN &; literature; 19TH century British history; NURSES; WOMEN in popular culture; WOMEN political activists; 19TH century medical history; CITIZEN participation in public health; HISTORY of India -- 19th century; FICTION
- Publication
Victorian Literature & Culture, 2011, Vol 39, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
1060-1503
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1060150310000288