Edward Tyas Cook: 5 books

2 works of Edward Tyas Cook English journalist, biographer, and man of letters (1857-1919) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Edward Tyas Cook. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: The Life of Florence Nightingale Volume I The Life of Florence Nightingale Volume II

Seeking to keep the flame of literature burning during the dark days of the Great War, Sir Edward Cook collected his reflections on reading and writing in 1918. Subjects of his essays include the arts of biography and indexing, the style of John Ruskin, literary and modern journalism, words and their relation to war, and more.

Men and women are divided, in relation to their papers, into hoarders and scatterers. Miss Nightingale was a hoarder, and as she lived to be 90 the accumulation of papers, stored in her house at the time of her death, was very great. The papers referring to years up to 1861 had been neatly done up by...

The years immediately after Sidney Herbert's death were among the busiest and most useful in Miss Nightingale's life. She was engaged during them in carrying their “joint work unfinished” into a new field. In the previous volume we saw Miss Nightingale using her position as the heroine of the...

Men and women are divided, in relation to their papers, into hoarders and scatterers. Miss Nightingale was a hoarder, and as she lived to be 90 the accumulation of papers, stored in her house at the time of her death, was very great. The papers referring to years up to 1861 had been neatly done up...