“In this very restricted account, I have tried to present her [Nightingale’s] work as a whole and not as a spasm—I have tried to show her as the Patient Preparer, the Woman in the Gap, the Public Idol, the first Pre-Y.M.C.A. Champion of the soldier’s rights to recreation, the Unrelenting Fellow-worker, the Sanitary Reformer, the “Passionate Statistician,” the Founder of Scientific Nursing, the Inspirer of the Geneva Convention, the Pleader of the Poor Law Victims at Home, the Friend of the Indian Peasant, and not least, the Loving Heart, the Adored Friend, and the humble, self-analysing, self-mortifying Mystic.” (Introduction)
With printed dedication “To Elsie Maud Inglis, whose Crimea was Serbia, but whose post-war work is in another world”; Inglis had died in 1917.

One of a trio of SPCK’s rare ‘Pioneers of Progress: Women’ titles (issued in paper at 2s. 6d. and cloth at 3s. 6d.), which also celebrated Elsie Inglis (see our copy) and Dorothea Beale.
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