Abstract
designed to make good any quality deficient in the potential nurse, a training that demanded self-discipline, obedience and subordination, a training th at persisted into off-duty hours and the Nurses Home, where adherence to strict regulations ensured no lapse of standards. In all, a tremendous effort to make nursing socially acceptable, and successful too, for we are told that nursing came to attract to its ranks certain sections of the community, who saw in it the means of improving their social position . Finally, Mr Maggs considers the portrayal of nurses in fiction as a reflection of society's attitudes, from the appearance of the nurse as a character, to the nurse as a heroine-some 150 years later-and how, in popular fiction at least, a motive for nursing was the chance of marriage. Here is an informative book covering a wide range of interest and recommended to all wanting to know more about the work of women at the turn of the century and about the origins of nursing.
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