Florence Nightingale on women, medicine, midwifery and prosititution.

Florence Nightingale : a precis of her life -- Nightingale's views on women -- Nightingale on women -- Employment and income security for women -- Marriage, celibacy and vocation -- Gender and class - ladies or women -- Religious communities for women -- Nightingale's draft novel -- Midwifery training at King's College Hospital -- Establishment of the training school for midwifery nurses at King's College Hospital -- Ecclesiastical interference at King's College Hospital -- Closing the training school and midwifery ward at King's College Hospital -- Research for and writing Introductory notes on lying-in institutions -- Introductory notes on lying-in institutions -- Notes on lying-in institutions -- Midwifery statistics -- Normal death rate of lying-in women in England -- Normal mortality among lying-in women in different countries -- Objections to the data -- Estimated approximate home death rate -- Death rates in lying-in institutions -- Classification of causes of mortality in lying-in institutions -- Causes of high death rates in lying-in institutions -- Influence of construction and management of lying-in wards on the death rate -- Results of improved lying-in ward construction -- Should medical students be admitted to lying-in hospital practice? -- Influence of time spent in a lying-in ward on the death rate -- Effect of good management on the success of lying-in establishments -- Management of military lying-in wards -- Recapitulation -- Can the arrangement and management of lying-in institutions be improved? -- Chapter II : construction and management of a lying-in institution and training school for midwives and midwifery nurses -- I : construction of a lying-in institution -- Site -- II : management -- III : training school for midwives -- Description of sketch-plans of proposed institution -- App. Midwifery as a career for educated women -- After publication of Introductory notes on lying-in institutions -- The regulation of prostitution by the Contagious Diseases Acts -- "Note on the supposed protection" -- Further legislation in the 1860s and the beginning of the repeal movement -- The Royal Commission 1871 -- The repeal campaign and treatment measures in the 1870s -- International work on repeal -- Suspension and repeal in the 1880s -- Contagious diseases legislation in India -- The treatment of "penitents" in the Convent of the Good Shepherd -- Women friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances -- Older women friends -- Selina Bracebridge -- Mary Clarke Mohl -- Sarah Elizabeth Sutherland -- Julia Smith -- Joanna Bonham Carter -- Harriet Martineau -- Lady Elizabeth McNeill -- Mary Jones -- Lady Alicia Blackwood -- Other older friends -- Contemporary women friends -- (Mary) Elizabeth Herbert -- Louisa Stewart-Mackenzie, Lady Ashburton -- Georgina Tollet -- Other contemporary women friends -- Notable and royal women acquaintances -- Julia Ward Howe -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Angela Burdett-Coutts -- Other notable women -- Royal women -- Younger women friends -- Adeline Paulina Irby -- Louisa Shore Smith -- Blanche (Smith) Clough and daughters -- Bertha (Smith) Coltman -- Sibella Bonham Carter -- Maude Verney -- Other Verney relatives -- Rosalind (Smith) Nash -- Charlotte Symonds Green -- Caroline Werckner -- Women servants and villagers -- Jane, Fanny and Mary Dowding -- Alice Mochler -- Mrs. Holmes and Lizzie Holmes -- Ellen "Nelly" Owen -- Frances Groundsell -- Nuns -- (Roman Catholic) sisters of mercy -- Anglican nuns.

"Volume 8: Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution makes available a great range of Florence Nightingale's work on women: her pioneering study of maternal mortality post childbirth, her opposition to the regulation of prostitution through the Contagious Diseases Acts, her views on gender roles, marriage and income security for women and excerpts from her draft (abandoned) novel. There is correspondence with women friends and colleagues from childhood to old age, on a vast range of subjects. Most of this material has not been published before, and some letters will be new even to Nightingale scholars. Altogether, a very different view of Nightingale emerges from what normally appears in biographies and other secondary sources. This material will enable a new assessment of her feminism, her relations with women and her contribution to improving the status of women of her time. It will be of interest to a broad range of historians, social scientists and public health experts."--BOOK JACKET.