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Florence Nightingale was a member of the British aristocracy who became a social reformer and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence during the Crimean War, leading a group of nurses and tending to the soldiers wounded in that bloody conflict.
She brought respectability to the nursing profession and became an icon of Victorian culture. Nurse, administrator, feminist and statistician - Florence is the best documented Victorian woman after Queen Victoria herself.