Lynn McDonald - Florence Nightingale: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works

Lynn McDonald is professor emerita at the University of Guelph. She did her BA at the University of British Columbia and her PhD at the London School of Economics. She has an honorary doctorate from York University, Toronto, and is a member of the Order of Canada.

She has published extensively in criminology (Social Class and Delinquency, 1969, and The Sociology of Law and Order, 1976) and sociological theory (The Early Origins of the Social Sciences, 1993; The Women Founders of the Social Sciences, 1994; and an anthology, Women Theorists on Society and Politics, 1998). She is the editor of the sixteen-volume, peer-reviewed, Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, 20012012.

An activist on womens issues, McDonald was president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women when it was Canadas largest womens organization. She presented its brief on equality rights to the Joint Senate-Commons Committee on the Constitution, when Canada got, in effect, its equal rights amendment. An environmentalist, she has worked particularly on climate change, and is a cofounder of JustEarth: A Coalition for Environmental Justice. Her current justice concerns, in addition to climate change, are electoral reform and the abolition of solitary confinement.

McDonald was a member of the Canadian Parliament between 1982 and 1988 when she was spokesperson for the New Democratic Party variously on Justice, Communications and Culture, and the Environment. Her private members bill, the Non-smokers Health Act, 1988, was the first legislation in the world to establish smoke-free work and public places. She considers that law, which addresses the largest cause of preventable mortality, a qualification for her work on Nightingale: I, too, have saved lives.

This reference guide draws on the years of work done for the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, published 20012012. Many people contributed to it at various stages, especially Gwyneth Watkins for transcription; Patricia Warwick and the late Cherry Ambrose for proofreading; the late Grard Valle for coediting; and then-director Brian Henderson, thenmanaging editor Caroll Klein, and the staff at Wilfrid Laurier University Press; as well as anonymous peer reviewers. Then there are friends, relatives, and colleagues who sent me their photographs.

Thanks are due to the Henry Bonham Carter Will Trust, which gave permission to publish Nightingales manuscript material.

At Rowman & Littlefield, thanks to Jon Woronoff and April Snider for speedy answers to questions and generally moving the process along.

1. Books, Articles, and Chapters by Nightingale

a. 1851

b. 1854

c. 1855

d. 1858

e. 1859

f. 1860

g. 1861

h. 1862

i. 1863

j. 1864

k. 1865

l. 1866

m. 1867

n. 18671868

o. 1868

p. 1869

q. 1870

r. 1871

s. 1872

t. 1873

u. 1874

v. 1875

w. 1876

x. 1877

y. 1878

z. 1879

aa. 1880

bb. 1882

cc. 1883

dd. 1884

ee. 1887

ff. 1888

gg. 1889

hh. 1890

ii. 1891

jj. 1892

kk. 1893

ll. 1894

mm. 1895

nn. 1896

2. Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

3. Nightingales Letters in The Times

a. 1855

b. 1856

c. 1857

d. 1858

e. 1860

f. 1861

g. 1870

h. 1871

i. 1872

j. 1873

k. 1876

l. 1877

m. 1878

n. 1885

o. 1886

p. 1888

q. 1890

r. 1891

s. 1892

t. 1893

u. 1895

v. 1901

4. Biographies, Collected Letters, and Papers of Nightingale

5. Manuscript Sources

6. Publications on the Crimean War (other than Nightingales)

a. Official Reports

b. Other Publications on the Crimean War

c. French Sources

d. Sources on Russia

7. Works Cited in the AZ Entries

a. Henry Dyke Acland

b. Prince Albert

c. American Civil War

d. Australian Nursing

e. Bible

f. Elizabeth Blackwell

g. Brucellosis

h. Duke of Cambridge

i. Edwin Chadwick

j. Anne Jemima Clough

k. Arthur Hugh Clough

l. John Croft

m. Lady Dufferin

n. Environment

o. William Farr

p. Millicent Garrett Fawcett

q. Douglas Galton

r. Geneva Convention

s. Germ Theory

t. Alice Stopford Green

u. John Hall

v. Elizabeth Herbert

w. Allan Octavian Hume

x. Introductory Notes on Lying-in Institutions

y. Adeline Paulina Irby

z. Benjamin Jowett

aa. Koulali Hospital

bb. John Lawrence

cc. Florence Lees, afterward Mrs. Dacre Craven

dd. Thomas Longmore

ee. Lord Lytton

ff. Flora Masson

gg. John Stuart Mill

hh. Richard Monckton Milnes

ii. Mary Clare Moore (Reverend Mother)

jj. Dadabhai Naoroji

kk. Notes on Nursing

ll. Edmund A. Parkes

mm. Pathology Commission

nn. Pavilion Hospitals

oo. Angelique-Lucille Pringle

pp. L. A. J. Quetelet

qq. Lord Raglan

rr. William Rathbone

ss. Robert Rawlinson

tt. Lord Roberts

uu. Lord Salisbury

vv. Mary Ann Scharlieb

ww. James Young Simpson

xx. Sisters of Mercy

yy. Robert Angus Smith

zz. Alexis Soyer

aaa. James Stansfeld

bbb. Sunlight

ccc. Leo Tolstoy

ddd. Edmund Hope Verney

eee. Margaret Maria Verney

fff. Parthenope Verney

Nightingale published a substantial body of work during her lifetime, including full books, lengthy reports, briefs to government, journal articles, introductions and chapters in books, pamphlets, letters to the editor, and many short articles and opinion pieces in a variety of outlets. Soon after the Crimean War, writing became her major form of expression. Her period of active work was brief, between 1851 and 1857, a few years of nursing before the Crimean War on to only a short period after it when she was well enough to travel and attend meetings. From roughly 1858 on, she seldom went out but depended on writing to make the case she wanted for the concern at hand: nursing, health care, hospitals, army reform, India, and women. She considered her letters to be and remain private; many are designated Private, Confidential, or both, some are marked Burn.

The literature on Nightingale during her lifetime was also substantial, and has only continued to grow. The literature on the Crimean War, too, was substantial at the time, including numerous memoirs, letters, and journals of officers as well as academic accounts by military and medical historians, journalists, and others. It has continued to grow as new memoirs, biographies, and histories come out. This bibliography, accordingly, must be selectivea complete listing of secondary sources would take volumes. It is comprehensive only for Nightingales own publications and, for the Crimean War, only for official reports. Otherwise, it is highly selective, including the best for accuracy and relevance.

Nightingales own publications on the Crimean War are listed, with her other publications, in Section 1. Other publications on the war are listed in Section 6, publications on the Crimean War (other than Nightingales), with sections (a.) Official Reports, (b.) Other Publications on the Crimean War (major secondary sources), (c.) French Sources, and (d.) Sources on Russia.

An appendix in Nightingales official biography helpfully lists her publications with a brief description of each. It notes multiple places and dates of publication, for she often republished articles for convenient distribution (Cook, Volume 2, Appendix A). This bibliography includes some sources missed by Cook and notably includes a comprehensive list of her letters to