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Book Review

Judith Godden, Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced: Florence Nightingale's Envoy to Australia, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2006. pp. x + 373. $34.95 paper.

If you are interested in how formal nursing developed in Australia, then this is the book for you. In an engaging and highly readable style, University of Sydney historian, Judith Godden has reconstructed the life of New South Wales' first professional nurse, Lucy Osburn. Appointed to the position by Florence Nightingale on a request by the NSW government led by Henry Parkes, Lucy Osburn, along with five nurses, arrived in Sydney in 1868 to take up the position as Lady Superintendent of the Sydney Infirmary (later the Sydney Hospital) in Macquarie Street. Osburn's brief was to reform nursing and establish a training school based on Nightingale's methods.

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