Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale’s work on the methodology of social science and her views on social reform. Here we see how she took her “call to service” into practice: by first learning how the laws of God’s world operate, one can then determine how to intervene for good. There is material on medical statistics, the census, pauperism and Poor Law reform, the need for income security measures and better housing, on crime, gender and the family. Her comments on a new edition of The Dialogues of Plato are given, with their impact on the revision of the next edition. We see Nightingale’s condemnation of Plato’s “community of wives,” with her stirring approval of love (even outside marriage!), marriage and the family. In this volume also her views on natural science, education and literature are reported.
Nightingale was an astute behind-the-scenes political activist. Society and Politics publishes (much of it for the first time) her correspondence with such leading political figures as Queen Victoria, W.E. Gladstone and J.S. Mill. There are notes and essays on public administration and personal observations on various members of royalty, prime ministers and ministers, and Indian viceroys. Nightingale’s support of the vote for women (contrary to much in the secondary literature) is here shown. Correspondence and notes on British general elections from 1834 to 1900 is reported, with letters to and for (Liberal) political candidates and fierce condemnations of Conservatives.
Currently, Volumes 1 to 11 are available in e-book version by subscription or from university and college libraries through the following vendors: Canadian Electronic Library, Ebrary, MyiLibrary, and Netlibrary.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 10
- Dramatis Personae 12
- List of Illustrations 13
- Florence Nightingale: A Précis of the Collected Works 14
- Introduction to Volume 5 16
- Key to Editing 20
- Society: Essays, Letters and Notes on Social Physics and Social Statistics 24
- Nightingale’s Quetelet 26
- Marginal Annotations to Physique sociale 33
- Essay ‘‘In Memoriam’’ 51
- Notes and Letters to Jowett on Quetelet and Probability 83
- Hospital Statistics 89
- Analysis of the 1841 Census 107
- Proposals for the 1861 Census 110
- As Householder in the 1871 Census 118
- Proposal for a Chair in Social Physics 120
- Social Policy, Poverty, Poor Law and Charity 144
- ‘‘A Note on Pauperism’’ 144
- ‘‘Who Is the Savage?’’ 174
- Relief of Distress 178
- Income Security and Housing for Workers 181
- Social-Class Issues 201
- Co-operatives versus Trade Unions 209
- ‘‘Jack O’Darmstadt’’ 213
- Assisted Emigration 216
- Coffee Houses, Workingmen’s Institutes and Temperance 220
- Fred Verney’s Clubs for Workingmen 225
- Crime, Crime-ology, Juvenile Offenders and Prisons 238
- Gender and the Family 246
- Gordon Boys’ Home 257
- Private Charities and Fundraising 271
- Politics: Essays, Notes and Letters 292
- Government, Public Policy and Elections 294
- ‘‘Politics and Public Administration’’ 294
- Social Progress 305
- ‘‘Go Down into Hell Bravely’’ 312
- Notes on the Decline of Public Administration 315
- British Imperialism/Foreign Policy 331
- Elections and Party Politics 344
- Elections 1830s-1850s 345
- Elections 1860s 351
- Elections 1870s 357
- 1880 Election 359
- Elections 1885 and Later 362
- Endorsing Candidates 375
- Political Notables: Letters and Notes 384
- John Stuart Mill 384
- Queen Victoria and Prince Albert 425
- William Ewart Gladstone 442
- Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton 500
- General Charles Gordon 513
- Liberal and Progressive Politicians 535
- Viceroys, Governors General of India 545
- Conservative Politicians 551
- Other Political Notables 558
- Other Royal Persons 563
- Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature 572
- Philosophy 574
- Jowett’s Dialogues of Plato 574
- Other Philosophers, Greek to Modern 647
- Natural Science 668
- Scientific Method and Discovery 671
- Evolution and Heredity 675
- Education 686
- Visit to Oxford University 690
- Teaching and Lesson Plans 694
- Appointment of a Mistress at Girton College 706
- Lea School 713
- Literature 748
- Classical Greek, Roman and Renaissance Authors 754
- Poets and Playwrights 762
- British Novelists and Essayists 786
- American Authors 808
- Historians 815
- Biography of Ellen M. 823
- A Literary Parlour Game 829
- Non-human Species, Love of Nature, Birds 832
- Appendixes 848
- Appendix A: Biographical Sketches 850
- L.A.J. Quetelet (1796-1874) 850
- (Sir) Edwin Chadwick (1800-90) 851
- John Stuart Mill (1806-73) 852
- William Farr (1807-91) 854
- Adeline Paulina Irby (1838-1911) 855
- Appendix B: Chronology 857
- Bibliography 862
- Index 872
- A 873
- B 873
- C 875
- D 877
- E 878
- F 879
- G 880
- H 881
- I 882
- J 883
- K 883
- L 884
- M 885
- N 886
- O 887
- P 887
- Q 889
- R 889
- S 890
- T 892
- U 892
- V 893
- W 893
- Y 894
- Z 894
