Laura Elvery’s novel, Nightingale, invites us to see the legendary nurse not as a symbol, but as a person shaped by illness, desire, pain and time.

Florence Nightingale, though, gave every indication in her 2-year-old season that she might not live up to the expectations her lofty pedigree promised.

Because it is Florence Nightingale’s birthday. She would be 205 this year. Yet I fear we will celebrate this day with little knowledge of her enormous footprint in creating the profession of ...

A lock of Florence Nightingale's hair has fetched more than £3,500 at auction in North Yorkshire. The hair, verified to belong to the 19th Century nursing pioneer, was expected to fetch between ...

Florence Nightingale is often described as the founder of modern nursing. ... She is not the symbol, but the woman – not solely the caregiver, but a patient, child and sister.