Florence Nightingale: A Biography

CHAPTER I.

_Florence Nightingale: her home, her birthplace, and her family._

In the heart of Derbyshire there is a quaint old church, once a private chapel, and possessing, instead of a churchyard, a bit of quiet greenness, of which the chief ornament, besides the old yew tree at the church door, is a kind of lovers’ bower made by two ancient elder trees which have so intertwi...