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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Known as “the Lady with the Lamp” for her nightly nursing visits (though in this detail
from a larger painting, she's standing lampless, in the center, with a piece of paper),
Nightingale traveled to Turkey in 1854 to tend to Crimean War victims. In fact, her forte
was not hands-on nursing but efficient hospital administration (sanitation, keeping supplies
stocked, transporting wounded), which ended up saving lives and raising public awareness
about health issues. To learn more about her, you can visit the Florence Nightingale Mu-
seum, just across the Thames from Big Ben (in Gassiot House at 2 Lambeth Palace Road,
Tube: Westminster, Waterloo, or Lambeth North).
• Across the hall, in Room 24, you'll find several...
Writers
Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë
(left to right, youngest to oldest, painted by brother
Branwell), three teenage country girls, grew up to write novels such as
Wuthering Heights
