Footnotes




[1] "By the Alma River," by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.

[2] "Charge of the Light Brigade," by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

[3] Tooley, "Life of Florence Nightingale," p. 137.

[4] Tooley, "Life of Florence Nightingale," p. 126.

[5] "Santa Filomena," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

[6] Kinglake, "Invasion of the Crimea."

[7] "Hiawatha," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

[8] Tooley, "Life of Florence Nightingale," p. 154.

[9] Rachel was a famous French actress, but I cannot imagine any real resemblance between her and Miss Nightingale.

[10] Tooley, "Life of Florence Nightingale," p. 220.

[11] Tooley, "Life of Florence Nightingale," p. 223.

[12] Tooley, "Life of Florence Nightingale," p. 229.

[13] Tooley, "Life of Florence Nightingale," pp. 231-32.

[14] Tooley, "Life of Florence Nightingale," p. 240.




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