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Article: Christian soldier
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- New Statesman
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- October 6, 2008
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Christian soldier Mary Warnock on the remarkable public career of a great Victorian Florence Nightingale: the Woman and Her Legend Mark Bostridge Viking, 646pp. £25
One of Florence Nightingale's first cousins, a "taboo" cousin, was Barbara Bodichon, who was virtually the founder with Emily Davies of Girton College, Cambridge, the first of all the Oxford and Cambridge women's colleges. She was taboo because she was one of the five illegitimate children of Florence's uncle Ben Smith, her mother's only brother, a misfortune that also prevented her membership of the governing body of Girton.
Florence probably never met her; but they would have had much in common. Florence's determination and ...