El legado escrito de Florence Nightingale. Un rico patrimonio de la profesión enfermera

Abstract

This study offers an approach to the environment of written culture in which Florence Nightingale developed throughout her life, showing a true passion for writing. She communicated through letters with people from the highest social strata of Victorian society, politicians, intellectuals and scientists, in addition to maintaining a close relationship with her family. She composed and published many works for the health field and systematically used the allencompassing power of the press to spread her work. He had the invaluable help of powerful and influential friends and today his written legacy is widely dispersed by institutions in different countries and is being digitized and hosted on the internet, so its dissemination and study allows a better understanding of the personality of the illustrious British nurse. Her figure went beyond the limits of nursing practice and the image of a woman who fought and tireless for women's rights circulated throughout Europe, frequently appearing in the nineteenth-century press in Spain with traits of an international heroine and role model. Writing in all its manifestations had played a decisive role in shaping Florence Nightingale's image.