The Burning Lamp Author:Frances Murray It is debatable whether Florence Nightingale had ever met a young woman quite like Phemie Witherspoon. Perhaps in the unremarkable but self-possessed scrap of a girl from Glasgow she recognized something of her own redoubtable spirit.At all events, she accepted Phemie's reasons for leaving home enrolled her to train as a nurse - one of the new ... more »breed who were to convert a degrading job of hospital nursing into a vocation.
What neither Miss Nightingale nor Phemie could have guessed at that first interview was where the pursuit of her chosen profession might take the new recruit.« less