The Lady with the Lamp During the Crimean campaign, Florence Nightingale gained the nickname "The

Lady with the Lamp", deriving from a phrase in a report in The Times: he is a !ministering angel" without any e#aggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides $uietly along each corridor, every poor fellow%s face softens with gratitude at the sight of her& 'hen all the medical officers have retired for the night and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may (e o(served alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds&)*+ The phrase was further popularised (y ,enry 'adsworth Longfellow%s -./0 poem " anta Filomena": Lo1 in that hour of misery 2 lady with a lamp 3 see 4ass through the glimmering gloom, 2nd flit from room to room&