She wanted to start working at Salisbury Infirmary, nearby. Because of the reputation of nursing back then everybody was horrified. A cultured lady of that day did not enter in hospital work. She is approached with, yet another, marriage proposal in 1847. This time, by Richard Monckton Milnes. At the same time she is having a mental breakdown. Selina and Charles Bracebridge take her to Rome with them for some time to think. After years of waiting, Milnes is given a final answer to his proposal. An answer of no. After a lot of thought she said that she couldn’t have work of her own if she chooses to follow her heart into a society marriage. She concluded that marriage would destroy her chance of ‘serving God’s call.’ In 184

Sir Harry Verney proposes to Nightingale but she once more, declines. He then went on to propose to her sister, Parthenope, who accepts, and they announce their engagement in April of that year.

9, she accompanies the Bracebridge’s on another trip. This time, down the Nile river in Egypt and Greece.

She began her lifelong project of sanitizing India when her attention was turned that way because to the Sepoy Rebellion. This is the beginning of her illness. (post traumatic stress disorder a.k.a PTSD). After this period of collecting facts on her sanitation project for India, she is bed ridden and only sees people when there is an appointment, one at a time. Upon her return from the Crimean War she never made a public appearance, never attended another public function, and never made another public statement again. To help get her ideas out, she invented charts and tables in which she uses her notes on the Army and the Hospitals she had once visited. This was never done before then and is now a very common practice.

In November of 1907, King Edward V

Some topics in this essay:
Barrack Hospital, Bracebridge Rome, Sepoy Rebellion, Florence Nightengale, Crimean War, Salisbury Infirmary, Merit Florence, Prince Albert, Florence Turkey, Harry Verney,