Chapter XLII: Appendix: C (4)

Verney, Frances Parthenope, Lady [(1) _General_; (2) _Letters_.]
(1) _General_:--
Elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Nightingale, i. 3-4; birthplace,
i. 4; birthday, i. 429; F. N.'s early letter to, i. 10, 11; a quick
pupil, i. 13; on a winter in Paris with F. N. (1838-39), i. 20;
temperament of, contrasted with F. N.'s, i. 28, 29; character of,
i. 105; attitude to F. N. and her aspirations, i. 69, 84, 104, 105,
114, 115, 125, 126, 138, 141; marries Sir H. Verney (June 1858),
i. 380; collects and receives gifts and offers of nurses for F. N.
at Scutari, i. 166, 264-6; writes _Life and Death of Athena, an Owl_,
i. 160; lives near her sister in South Street, ii. 301; entertains
nurses for her, ii. 304; on F. N.'s Indian work, ii. 273; on her
sister as "like a man," ii. 15; on her interesting life, ii. 321;
affection for her, ii. 382; illness, ii. 324; death, ii. 382;
portraits of F. N. by, ii. 468; various references, i. 33, 148, 163,
369, ii. 82, 164, 235
(2) _Letters of_:--
To Madame Mohl, i. 33, 166, 371, 499; to F. N., i. 265, 274, 280,
306, 372; to various friends, i. 62, 154, 155, 159, 198, 252, 259,
261, 264, 280, 304, 305, 320
Verney, Margaret, Lady, ii. 389
Victoria, Queen, accession of, i. 479; the Bedchamber Plot, i. 25; Lord
Melbourne and, i. 26; visit t o Strathfieldsaye (1845), i. 37; desires
F. N.'s letters from the East to be sent to her (Dec. 6, 1854), i. 215;
her letter read in Scutari hospitals, i. 215; and, published in the
press, checks sectarian outcry against F. N., i. 245-6; commissions
F. N. as almoner of the Royal Gifts to sick and wounded
(Dec. 14, 1854), i. 216; sends presents to the nurses, i. 216; writes
to ministers on F. N.'s letters, i. 216; consults F. N. as to what help
Her Majesty could render to the soldiers, i. 223; writes to ministers
about Scutari cemetery, i. 223; has bulletins of F. N.'s Crimean fever,
i. 259; presents F. N. with a jewel (Nov. 1855), i. 274, 294, 296;
sends print for F. N.'s Inkermann Café (Nov. 1855), i. 281; sends
F. N.'s letter to the Cabinet (Dec. 1855), i. 278; F. N.'s expression
of help rendered by Her Majesty, i. 294; approves Sir J. Clark's
invitation to F. N. to come to Ballater (Aug. 1856), i. 321; F. N.
introduced to, at Balmoral (Sept. 21, 1856), i. 324; calls on F. N.
(Sept. 26), i. 324; requests F. N. to stay to meet Lord Panmure,
i. 325; writes to Lord Panmure about F. N., i. 325; commands F. N. to
Balmoral (Oct.), i. 326; her opinion of F. N., i. xxvi, 213, 324, 325;
Proclamation to people of India (1858), ii. 324, 331, 340, 381;
acknowledges _Notes on Nursing_, i. 450; places hospital beds at
F. N.'s disposal, i. 497; the Royal Commission on India (1859), ii. 21;
offers rooms in Kensington Palace (1861), i. 498; death of the Prince
Consort, ii. 26; reads F. N.'s _Observations_ on India (1862), ii. 26;
appointment of Lord de Grey (1863), ii. 29; sends F. N. Prince Albert's
speeches, inscribed, ii. 26; choice of Prime Minister after Palmerston,
ii. 92; asks F. N. to see Queen of Prussia (1867), ii. 187; sends
message to F. N. (1868), ii. 192; lays stone of, and opens,
St. Thomas's Hospital, ii. 246; sends message on death of F. N.'s
mother (1880), F. N.'s reply, ii. 323; sends F. N. _Life of Prince
Consort_, ii. 324; sends message to F. N. at opening of the Law Courts
(1882), ii. 336; invites F. N. to Windsor to receive Royal Red Cross
(1883), ii. 339; subsequent communications on Army and India,
ii. 339-40; devotes Women's Jubilee Gift to nursing, ii. 355; invites
F. N. to witness Diamond Jubilee procession, ii. 412; letters to F. N.,
i. 216, 274, ii. 340; various references, i. 21, 215, 330, 493
Victoria, the Crown Princess (Empress Frederick), sends message to F. N.
(1858), i. 384; consults F. N. on Austro-Prussian War (1866) nursing,
ii. 116, 117; on Franco-German War, ii. 200, 203, 204; sees F. N.
(1868, 1870), ii. 188 _seq._, 203; founds Nursing School in Berlin,
ii. 204; lunches at F. N.'s house, ii. 303; later visits, ii. 357, 413;
F. N. on, ii. 187, 188; letters to F. N., ii. 118, 189, 204
Victorian Era Exhibition, ii. 408
Village Sanitation, in England, ii. 383, 384; in India, ii. 377
(_see also_ Indian Sanitation)
Villiers, C. P., and F. N.'s scheme of small ownership (1865), ii. 93;
communications with F. N. on Poor Law Reform (1864-67), ii. 130 _seq._;
adopts her scheme, ii. 105, 134; abandons idea of a Bill, ii. 105, 134;
attitude to Mr. Hardy's Bill (1867), ii. 135, 138; on F. N., ii. 130,
139 _n._
Vincent, Miss, ii. 256
Virgil, a boy's translation of, i. 129
Virtue, "a second-rate virtue," ii. 95
Vivian, Sir R., ii. 19, 21, 22
Voltaire, ii. 317
Volunteers, F. N. on the, i. 496, ii. 7, 8, 336
Voysey Defence Fund, ii. 200
Vulgarity, i. 424

Waddington, Mr., i. 437
Wady Halfa, ii. 346
Walker, Dr. J. P., ii. 50
Wantage, Lord (Colonel Loyd Lindsay), ii. 199, 337, 434, 457
Wantage, Lady, ii. 409
War, ii. 411
Ward, Sir Henry, i. 90
Ward Island Emigrant Hospital, F. N.'s gift to, ii. 9 _n._
Ward, Lord, i. 260
Wardroper, Mrs., Matron, St. Thomas's Hospital, i. 458; F. N.'s
character-sketch of, i. 458; Nightingale Training School and, i. 459,
461, 462, 463, ii. 190, 193, 194, 247, 248, 254, 268, 302, 326; on
Agnes Jones, ii. 126; retires, ii. 354
War Office, organization of (1854), i. 248, 249; reorganization of,
attempted (1860-61), i. 403, 404; partial, (1862) ii. 62; (1868)
ii. 161; obstruction to various reforms, i. 380, 390, 394, 405; after
S. Herbert's death undermining his work, ii. 4, 9, 94; F. N.'s sarcasm
on, ii. 72; principles of reform, ii. 63-4; F. N. as adviser to
(1862-66), ii. 59 _seq._
Washington, George, ii. 91
Water cure, i. 118
Waterloo, battle of, ii. 404, 410
Watts, G. F., portrait of Sir John. Lawrence, ii. 43; of F. N.
(unfinished), ii. 469
Waverley Abbey, i. 29, 32
Webster, Sir R. (Lord Alverstone), ii. 362, 363
Wedderburn, Sir William, ii. 332, 371, 378, 379, 404, 453
Wellington, Duke of, ii. 404, 410
Wellow, F. N.'s reply to parishioners of, i. 309
Wensleydale, ii. 101
Werckner, Madame, ii. 202
West Indian colonies, staff-surgeons, ii. 70
Westminster, Duke of, ii. 355, 364
Westminster Hospital, ii. 256
Westminster Ragged Schools, i. 82, 93
_Westminster Review_, i. 377
Wheatstone, Sir Charles, i. 65
White, Blanco, ii. 12
Whitfield, R. G., Resident medical officer St. Thomas's Hospital, i. 185,
458; corresponds with F. N. on removal of the hospital, i. 425, 426;
Nightingale Training School and, i. 458, 459, 460; retires, ii. 247
Whybron, Thomas, i. 279
Widows' caps, F. N.'s, ii. 15
Wilberforce, William, i. 5
Wilbraham, Colonel, i. 405
William I., German Emperor, ii. 314 _n._
William II., German Emperor, ii. 420
William IV., i. 479
"William." _See_ Jones
Williams, Dr., ii. 17
Williams, Mrs. Margaret, i. 234
Williams, Miss Rachel (Mrs. D. Morris), ii. 255, 256, 260, 347
Wilton House, ii. 4
Winchester County Hospital, i. 422, 423; health of, ii. 119
Wintle, W. J., _The Story of Florence Nightingale_, ii. 466; quoted or
referred to, i. 236, 237
"Wiping" Sub-Commission, i. 364, 366, 394
Wiseman, Cardinal, i. 250 _n._, 253
"Wives," F. N.'s, i. 383
Wives and mothers, selfishness of, ii. 15
Wolff, Dr. H., ii. 441
Wolseley, Lord, and the Soldiers' Institute, Portsmouth, ii. 77; on
female nurses in military hospitals, ii. 341, 342; on hospital
deficiencies, Egypt, 1882, ii. 338 _n._
Woman, Women, as "handmaids of the Lord," ii. 366; as health missioners,
ii. 353; attitude of, to women, ii. 315; better life for, sought by
F. N., i. 102, 442, ii. 366; business-like efficiency in religious
Orders, i. 432; the Churches and work for, i. 57; crave for being
loved, not for loving, ii. 15; have only odds and ends of time, i. 116,
ii. 238; in the Bible and Greek literature, ii. 229; inaccuracy of,
ii. 15; influence of, i. 332; "inspiration" of, ii. 316; lack power of
attention, ii. 14; lack power of sympathy, ii. 14; midwifery as a
career for, ii. 197; new sphere for, opened by F. N.'s Crimean mission,
i. 305, 306, 448; F. N.'s knowledge of, ii. 14; the _respublica_ and,
ii. 95; regulations and, ii. 195; "woman's movement," i. 385, 441,
ii. 14, 142
Woman's Suffrage, i. 332, ii. 215, 216, 217; F. N. on, ii. 451
Wombwell's menagerie, ii. 110
Wood, Sir Charles (Viscount Halifax), Indian Secretary, ii. 33, 36, 38,
41, 42, 43, 47, 48, 57; resigns 1866, ii. 108
Wood, Sir Evelyn, ii. 337, 407
Woolner, T., R.A., ii. 469
Woolwich, Herbert (General Military) Hospital, i. 340, 395, 405, 420,
ii. 6, 73, 88; Naval Hospital, i. 348
Work, blessedness of, i. 34, ii. 209, 214, 430
Workhouses, Workhouse Infirmaries, condition of (1864-66), ii. 52, 123,
124, 125; nursing in, ii. 52, 125, 128; reforms in, ii. 143; Irish,
ii. 412
Works _versus_ doctrines, i. 58
Wreford, Mr., Purveyor-General, i. 157, 225
Wright, R. S., ii. 60 and _n._, 399
Writing, doing and, i. 94; F. N.'s attitude towards, i. 93-4, 474
Würstenberger, Mdlle., i. 110
Wyatt, Sir William, ii. 192
Wyse, Sir Thomas, i. 90

Yonge, Miss, _Book of Golden Deeds_, i. xxiv, ii. 462
Young, Colonel, ii. 25 _n._, 28
Young, "Ubiquity," i. 26
Yule, Colonel Sir Henry, succeeds Sir B. Frere on India Office Sanitary
Committee, ii. 274; collaborates with F. N., ii. 375; death, ii. 387;
on F. N., ii. 308, 386; _Memoir of Sir W. E. Baker_, ii. 274 _n._

Zambesi mission, ii. 194
Zemindars, ii. 285, 295, 451
Zenana Mission, ii. 333
Zoroaster, ii. 222

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