# Mrs. Nightingale — Eminent Victorians character guide

> Mrs. Nightingale in Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0015-florence-nightingale

## Who they are

Mother of Florence Nightingale.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/eminent_victorians_se/chapters/i)

Florence's mother, who is perplexed and alarmed by her daughter's unconventional ambitions, initially dismissing the nursing scheme as preposterous and later lamenting that they have 'hatched a wild swan.'

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