The Life of Florence Nightingale: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Life of Florence Nightingale, credited to Sarah Tooley, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Life of Florence Nightingale by Sarah Tooley. Read in English by Ciufi Galeazzi. Journalist and author Sarah Tooley was best known in her time for her biography of Queen Victoria and this biography of Florence Nightingale, written while its subject was still living (while Project Gutenberg lists its publication date as 1916, its original publication date appears to be 1904). Tooley gives us a comprehensive and engaging look at the life of this remarkable woman, who was not only the founder of modern nursing, but a statistician, social reformer, feminist, and author. - Summary by Ciufi Galeazzi

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Life of Florence Nightingale
• Author credits: Sarah Tooley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Combined MP3 track duration: 8:15:05

Catalogue topics

• feminism
• nursing
• social reform

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - Chapter I Birth and Ancestry — 10:19
2. 02 - Chapter II Earliest Associations — 8:56
3. 03 - Chapter III Lea Hurst — 9:55
4. 04 - Chapter IV The Days of Childhood — 21:14
5. 05 - Chapter V The Squire's Daughter — 22:12
6. 06 - Chapter VI Florence Nightingale's Alma Mater and Its Founder — 18:33
7. 07 - Chapter VII Enters Kaiserwerth: A Plea for Deaconesses — 16:12
8. 08 - Chapter VIII A Period of Waiting — 9:38
9. 09 - Chapter IX Sydney, Lord Herbert of Lea — 10:01
10. 10 - Chapter X The Crimean War and Call to Service — 22:54
11. 11 - Chapter XI Preparation and Departure for Scutari — 18:57
12. 12 - Chapter XII The Lady-In-Chief — 24:03
13. 13 - Chapter XIII At Work in the Barrack Hospital — 28:01
14. 14 - Chapter XIV Grappling with Cholera and Fever — 15:23
15. 15 - Chapter XV Timely Help — 16:56
16. 16 - Chapter XVI The Angel of Death — 12:37
17. 17 - Chapter XVII Sails for the Crimea and Goes Under Fire — 15:57
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII Stricken by Fever — 17:20
19. 19 - Chapter XIX Close of the War — 32:42
20. 20 - Chapter XX The Return of the Heroine — 18:18
21. 21 - Chapter XXI The Soldier's Friend at Home — 32:07
22. 22 - Chapter XXII Wisdom from the Queen of Nurses — 33:29
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII The Nursing of the Sick Poor — 25:37
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV Later Years — 34:05

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