She’s one of the best known female icons this country has ever produced; Florence Nightingale. And now a new, exhaustive biography has been added to the long list of books already published about the lady with the lamp. So why has Mark Bostridge chosen this most familiar subject to focus so much attention on?
Sheila is joined by Florence Nightingale biographer Mark Bostridge.
‘Florence Nightingale’ by Mark Bostridge, is published by Penguin books.
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