Rosalind Nash

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Rosalind Nash
Born
Rosalind Frances Mary Shore Smith

December 1862
Died17 October 1952
Hampshire, England
EducationGirton College, Cambridge, (1881–4)
Occupation(s)Journalist, co-operator
OrganizationWomen's Co-operative Guild
SpouseVaughan Nash
Relatives Barbara Stephen (sister); Florence Nightingale (father's cousin)

Rosalind Frances Nash, née Shore-Smith (December 1862 – 17 October 1952)[1] was a journalist and co-operator,[1] and the niece and confidante of Florence Nightingale.[2] She assisted in some of Nightingale's publications, and wrote on her behalf to Karl Pearson, when Pearson was writing his biography of Francis Galton.

Rosalind Shore-Smith was the elder daughter of Florence Nightingale's cousin William Shore Smith (afterwards Shore Nightingale), whom Florence Nightingale "regarded almost as a brother". Barbara (nee Margaret Thyra Barbara Shore-Smith), Rosalind's sister, married Sir Harry Lushington Stephen.[3] Rosalind married the progressive economist Vaughan Nash in 1893; they lived at Loughton.[2] After Florence Nightingale's death, Vaughan Nash played an important role in collating and copying her correspondence.[2]

Rosalind is buried with her husband in Wellow graveyard.[2]

Works[edit]

  • The accidents compensation act 1897, 1897
  • Life and death in the potteries, 1898
  • A Sketch of the Life of Florence Nightingale
  • Rosalind Nash (1907). "Co-operator and Citizen". The Case for Women's Suffrage: 66–77. Wikidata Q107166752.
  • (ed. with preface), Florence Nightingale's To Her Nurses. A Selection from her addresses to probationers and nurses of the Nightingale School at St.Thomas's Hospital. London,Macmillan,1914
  • (ed. with Sir Edward Tyas Cook, The Life of Florence Nightingale, Macmillan and Co, London, 1925. (An abridged version of Cook's 2-volume The Life of Florence Nightingale, Macmillan and Co, London, 1913)
  • Florence Nightingale according to Mr. Strachey, 1928

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Nash, Vaughan Robinson (1861–1932), journalist and public servant journalist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40819. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d Lynn McDonald, ed., Florence Nightingale on women, medicine, midwifery and prostitution, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2005, p.944
  3. ^ "The Florence Nightingale Museum". Archived from the original on 5 November 2006. Retrieved 13 January 2007.