Florence Nightingale A Biography Author:Annie Matheson This biography was published in 1913. — Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (1820-1910) was an English — nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence during — the Crimean War for her pioneering work in nursing, and was — dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making — rounds at night to tend injured soldiers. Nightingale laid the — f... more »oundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in
1860, of her nursing school at St. Thomas' Hospital in London,
the first secular nursing school in the world. The Nightingale
Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour, and
the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the