Oh, I want to read this:
Between sweet sentimentality and strange opacity is where Florence Nightingale lives today. Now, as back then, her reputation is tended by devoted admirers, who esteem her as the founder of modern nursing, a paragon of public service, the exemplary heroine. But already in its mid-Victorian origins there was a counter-mythology that grew and flourished in the 20th century...
-- excerpt from Slate.com
currently listening to:
Trouble with Classicists
John Cale/Lou Reed
xoxo tiffany
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