Florence Nightingale Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Biographies === The first biography of Nightingale was published in England in 1855. In 1911, [[Edward Tyas Cook]] was authorised by Nightingale's executors to write the official life, published in two volumes in 1913. Nightingale was also the subject of one of [[Lytton Strachey]]'s four mercilessly provocative biographical essays, ''[[Eminent Victorians]]''. Strachey regarded Nightingale as an intense, driven woman who was both personally intolerable and admirable in her achievements.<ref>Florence Nightingale, Monica E. Baly and H. C. G. Matthew, ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', 2015.</ref> [[Cecil Woodham-Smith]], like Strachey, relied heavily on Cook's ''Life'' in her 1950 biography, though she did have access to new family material preserved at Claydon. In 2008, [[Mark Bostridge]] published a major new life of Nightingale, almost exclusively based on unpublished material from the Verney Collections at Claydon and from archival documents from about 200 archives around the world, some of which had been published by Lynn McDonald in her projected sixteen-volume edition of the ''Collected Works of Florence Nightingale'' (2001 to date).<ref name="BBC 2017"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page