Lynn McDonald, director of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is university professor emerita at the University of Guelph. She is an environmentalist, a former member of parliament, a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, and a long-time activist on womens issues. She has an honorary doctorate from York University.
``The Nightingale project ranks with both the Gladstone diaries and
the Disraeli letters as a major undertaking in the field of
Victorian-era scholarship, and therefore is of surpassing value to
historians of the period, as well as to general readers.'' -- C.
Brad Faught, Tyndale University College, Toronto -- Anglican and
Episcopal History, Vol. 81 (1), March 2012, 201204
``The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale is an extremely
ambitious project that is a great service to scholarship. Every
general academic library should own the complete set. It pulls
together material that has been hitherto diffused across more than
150 collections, some of them private ones, in places ranging from
Germany to India and Japan, as well as numerous English-speaking
countries.'' -- Timothy Larsen -- Books and Culture,
November/December 2008, 200901
``The details and explications of her views...are presented in
carefully annotated and insightful editorial discussions....[These
volumes] provide a more complete understanding of this complex
woman, extending our appreciation of her much beyond the `The Lady
with the Lamp' legend.... The product of rigorous scholarship, of
meticulous historical research--and a labour of love.'' -- Canadian
Bulletin of Medical History, Volume 21/1, 2004, 200510
``[I]t is clear that this is an academic project of the highest
importance and integrity. It will have an impact on the work of
scholars far beyond the immediate field of health history.
Nightingale's interests were wide-ranging and her correspondence
included some of the leading thinkers of her day....The editing of
these volumes is exemplary. Every reference has been followed up,
including the identification of minor dramatis personae. Important
personalities are accorded short biographies. On every page there
are biblical allusions, which are faithfully identified. Each
thematic section has an introductory essay and these are amplified
by a full outline of Nightingale's life and thought in volume 1.
This project makes a major contribution to scholarship which will
be of permanent value.'' -- Helen Mathers, University of Sheffield,
Ecclesiastical History
``Reading this volume was like entering into an intimate
relationship with Florence Nightingale and gives amazing glimpses
of her drive and motivation and her modus operandi.'' -- Dr
Stephanie Kirby, Visiting Research Fellow, Faculty of Health and
Life Sciences,University of the West of England, Bristol, UK --
200910
``The Collected Works will allow us to see for the first time the
full complexity of this extraordinary and multifacted woman. It
will be a tool of enormous value not only to Nightgale scholars and
biographers, but also to historians of a wide variety of aspects of
Victorian society: war, the army, public health nursing, religion,
India, women's issues and so on.'' -- Mark Bostridge -- Times
Literary Supplement, January 10, 2003, 200310
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