Rosalind Nash

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Rosalind Nash was a confidante of Florence Nightingale. She assisted in some of Nightingale's publications, and wrote on her behalf to Karl Pearson, when Pearson was writing his biography of Francis Galton.

She was

  • the elder daughter of FN's cousin (W. Shore Smith, afterwards Shore Nightingale), whom she "regarded almost as a brother"
  • the wife[citation needed] of Vaughan Nash
  • and the elder sister of Lady Stephen, the husband of Sir Harry L. Stephen. [1].

[edit] Books etc

  • A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE by Rosalind Nash
  • NIGHTINGALE FLORENCE: To Her Nurses.A Selection from her addresses to probationers and nurses of the Nightingale School at St.Thomas's Hospital. London,Macmillan,1914 147pp and facsim.page. frontis.port. Preface by Rosalind Nash.
  • Cook, Sir Edward Tyas, The Life of Florence Nightingale, 2 vols, Macmillan and Co, London, 1913
  • Cook, Edward; Nash, Rosalind (editor), The Life of Florence Nightingale (abridged version), Macmillan and Co, London, 1925