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Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) defied the typical role of an affluent Victorian woman. Instead of pursuing marriage and motherhood, she pursued a career in nursing and public health. She was a pioneer and an innovator who felt she had been called by God to work in nursing and sanitation reform. In doing so, she became one of the first statisticians to use evidence-based reform methods, and she embraced charts and figures to aid in data visualization and convey her statistical results. She was a prolific author, publishing notes on her reforms as well as more personal religious and philosophical musings. Despite living most of her life with debilitating illness, she achieved great success in public health reform.
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Roe-Dale, R. (2021). Nightingale, Florence. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_373-1
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