CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Dramatis Personae -- List of Illustrations -- Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life -- Introduction to Volume 8 -- Nightingale's Views on Women -- Key to Editing -- Nightingale on Women -- Employment and Income Security for Women -- Marriage, Celibacy and Vocation -- Gender and Class-Ladies or Women -- Religious Communities for Women -- Nightingale's Draft Novel -- MIDWIFERY -- Midwifery Training at King's College Hospital -- Establishment of the Training School for Midwifery Nurses at King's College Hospital -- Ecclesiastical Interference at King's College Hospital -- Closing the Training School and Midwifery Ward at King's College Hospital -- Research for and Writing Introductory Notes on Lying-in Institutions -- Introductory Notes on Lying-in Institutions -- Preface -- Notes on Lying-in Institutions -- Midwifery Statistics -- Normal Death Rate of Lying-in Women in England -- Normal Mortality among Lying-in Women in Different Countries -- Objections to the Data -- Estimated Approximate Home Death Rate -- Death Rates in Lying-in Institutions -- Classification of Causes of Mortality in Lying-in Institutions -- Causes of High Death Rates in Lying-in Institutions -- Influence of Construction and Management of Lying-in Wards on the Death Rate -- Results of Improved Lying-in Ward Construction -- Should Medical Students be Admitted to Lying-in Hospital Practice? -- Influence of Time Spent in a Lying-in Ward on the Death Rate -- Effect of Good Management on the Success of Lying-in Establishments -- Management of Military Lying-in Wards -- Recapitulation -- Can the Arrangement and Management of Lying-in Institutions be Improved? -- Chapter II Construction and Management of a Lying-in Institution and Training School for Midwives and Midwifery Nurses -- I Construction of a Lying-in Institution -- Site -- II Management.

III Training School for Midwives -- Description of Sketch-Plans of Proposed Institution -- Appendix: Midwifery as a Career for Educated Women -- After Publication of Introductory Notes on Lying-in Institutions -- PROSTITUTION, THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACTS AND THE TREATMENT OF SYPHILITIC PROSTITUTES -- The Regulation of Prostitution by the Contagious Diseases Acts -- ''Note on the Supposed Protection'' -- Further Legislation in the 1860s and the Beginning of the Repeal Movement -- The Royal Commission 1871 -- The Repeal Campaign and Treatment Measures in the 1870s -- International Work on Repeal -- Suspension and Repeal in the 1880s -- Contagious Diseases Legislation in India -- The Treatment of ''Penitents'' in the Convent of the Good Shepherd -- WOMEN FRIENDS, RELATIVES, COLLEAGUES AND ACQUAINTANCES -- Women Friends, Relatives, Colleagues and Acquaintances -- Older Women Friends -- Selina Bracebridge -- Mary Clarke Mohl -- Sarah Elizabeth Sutherland -- Julia Smith -- Joanna Bonham Carter -- Harriet Martineau -- Lady Elizabeth McNeill -- Mary Jones -- Lady Alicia Blackwood -- Other Older Friends -- Contemporary Women Friends -- (Mary) Elizabeth Herbert -- Louisa Stewart-Mackenzie, Lady Ashburton -- Georgina Tollet -- Other Contemporary Women Friends -- Notable and Royal Women Acquaintances -- Julia Ward Howe -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Angela Burdett-Coutts -- Other Notable Women -- Royal Women -- Younger Women Friends -- Adeline Paulina Irby -- Louisa Shore Smith -- Blanche (Smith) Clough and Daughters -- Bertha (Smith) Coltman -- Sibella Bonham Carter -- Maude Verney -- Other Verney Relatives -- Rosalind (Smith) Nash -- Charlotte Symonds Green -- Caroline Werckner -- Women Servants and Villagers -- Jane, Fanny and Mary Dowding -- Alice Mochler -- Mrs Holmes and Lizzie Holmes -- Ellen ''Nelly'' Owen -- Frances Groundsell -- Nuns.

(Roman Catholic) Sisters of Mercy -- Anglican Nuns -- APPENDICES -- Appendix A: Biographical Sketches -- Harriet Martineau -- (Dr) Elizabeth Blackwell -- Sarah Elizabeth Sutherland -- Appendix B: Secondary Sources on Nightingale and Women -- Sex-Role Stereotyping in the Secondary Literature -- Bibliography for Appendix B -- Bibliography -- Index.