Yet as Britain prepares to celebrate Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday ... of Sick Gentlewomen on Upper Harley Street in London, a hospital for governesses. And she cared for prostitutes ...

Florence Nightingale was so much more than a lady ... parents' wishes and continued to visit hospitals in Paris, Rome and London. In 1850, realising his daughter was unlikely to marry, Florence ...

Florence Nightingale was born into a wealthy London family in 1820 ... She came back to London and started training nurses in a small hospital, where she was quickly promoted to superintendent.

Beth Rawson, who is the Royal Derby Hospitals Medical Museum Curator, said that Florence Nightingale set up for the first nurse training school at St Thomas' Hospital in London in 1860.

Although burial in Westminster Abbey was offered to the family of Florence Nightingale, famous nurse and reformer ... She started her career helping out in London hospitals and at the outbreak of the ...

Florence Nightingale is remembered for showing ... After training, Florence started a hospital in London. She had many ideas about better ways to look after sick people, like nurses washing ...