Mark Bostridge

Nursing grievances in the Crimean War

When Florence Nightingale was joined in Scutari by groups of volunteer nuns, tensions among them soon imperilled the entire female nursing experiment

‘The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale Receiving the Wounded at Scutari’, by Jerry Barrett, 1857. The nun to the left of Nightingale is Georgina Moore, the Superior of the Sisters of Mercy from Bermondsey. [Alamy]

  • Nightingale’s Nunsand the Crimean War

    Terry Tastard

    Bloomsbury, pp. 202, £58

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