Rosalind Nash

Rosalind Nash, née Smith (1862–1952) was a relative and confidante of Florence Nightingale. 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 Smith was the elder daughter of Florence Nightingale's cousin W. Shore Smith (afterwards Shore Nightingale), whom Florence Nightingale "regarded almost as a brother". Lady Stephen, the wife of Sir Harry L. Stephen, was her younger sister.^[1] She married the progressive economist Vaughan Nash.^[2] After Nightingale's death, Vaughan played an important role gathering and copying her correspondence.^[2]

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

Works

• The accidents compensation act 1897, 1897
• Life and death in the potteries, 1898
• A Sketch of the Life of Florence Nightingale
• (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

2. Lynn McDonald, ed., Florence Nightingale on women, medicine, midwifery and prostitution, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2005, p.944