Florence Nightingale was born in England in 1820 Into a wealthy family, but she did not want to lead an idle life and persuaded her father to let her learn to be a nurse. When the Crimean War began, she volunteered to go and help. At the front line there were many sick and wounded people who were not properly cared for. Florence worked almost around the clock for which she earned the name "The Lady with the Lamp". Her fame reached London before she did, and when she returned, she was already a celebrity. After the war she wrote a book and founded a nursing school. Florence died in 1970 at the age of 90.
