The Order of the Nightingale
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Medical Practitioners, Heroism, Patronage |
People mentioned: | Elizabeth Fry , Grace Darling |
Responding to news that Queen Victoria has conferred a 'decoration' on Florence Nightingale, suggests the establishment of an 'Order of Nightingale', an institution for representing 'all the womanly virtues', including 'Firmness and tenderness'. Believes this 'honour of the Queen of Women' would 'go down [...] to all time', and be extremely 'pretty'. Compares this order favourably to that associated with other animals. |
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