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117 CHAPTER VII FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, FOUNDER OF MODERN NURSING, AND HER TIMES HE young nursewho today reads the history of her profession has an inestimable ad- vantage in being able to studythe life of Florence Nightingale (i 820-1 910) in the biography authorized by Miss Nightingale's family and written with insight and understanding i? 1 i-* much to say that no nurse can gain a ® correct perspective of her calling unless she knows something of Miss Nightingale's career. In her fascinating "Life" we learn of the struggle of the girl to free herself from the artificial conventions of society; we see what a specially cultured — even deeply learned — woman was able to do in advancing and ennobling the work she chose; we see her in the practical constructive work of a nurse of supreme ability; with literary talents, framing a philosophy of nursing principles which by Sir Edward T. Cook. It is not too Early life and education