In England the Nightingales had two homes. They spent the summer months at their home in Lea Hurst in Derbyshire then moving to Williams home town Embley in Hampshire for the winter. Lea Hurst was later turned into a retirement home and Embley was turned into a school.

Florence and her father were good friends and he treated her as a companion rather than a daughter, he took responsibility for her education by teaching her and her sister at their home. Florence was a competent student and William taught her Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian, History, Philosophy and Mathematics. She also excelled in Literature, Music, Drawing and the Domestic arts.

Fanny Nightingale came from a stanch Unitarian family, she was a domineering women who was primarily concer

Sadly in 1861 Florence's good friend Sidney Herbert died Florence asked God to raise him from the dead however he did not come back alive. Florence lost faith in God and he never spoke again. ( Anglican Theological Review, 1996)

ned with finding her daughter a good husband. However Florence had other ideas for her future, thus writing in her diary just before her 17th birthday, her entry read; "On February 7th, 1837, God spoke to me and called me to his service." ( Anglican Theological Review, 1996)

It was in 1852 when Florence wrote her first book "Cassandra" but on the advice of her friends she never published it. "Women are never supposed to have any occupation of sufficient importance not to be interrupted, except "suckling their fools"; and women themselves have accepted this, have written books to support it, and have trained themselves so as to consider whatever they do as not of such value to the world as others, but that they can throw it up at the first "claim of social life". It is because most of her statements in this book are like the one above that she was advised not to publish Cassandra as it went against society's beliefs. (Monteiro 1974)

In 1846 Florence was let into a secret, Lord Ashley told her about the government reports called Blue Books. She started to become a self-taught expert on hospitals and sanitation.

At the age of 36 in July 1856 the war ended. On her way back home to Lea Hurst

With everything Florence had already done she decided to do more and decided to act as a banker and send money home to the soldiers families as there was no other trustworthy way for the soldiers to do it them selves. She asked authorities to set up an official service but they refused, so she appealed to Queen Victoria herself who over came the opposition. The soldiers brought in 1000 pounds a week, the men sent home almost 71,000 pound in less than six months. With her own money she established a reading room with tables so soldiers could write letters home. She imported four school masters to give lectures which in turn had the halls overflowing.(Strachey,1925)

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