Florence Nightingale

Cecil Blanche Woodham-Smith (1896-1977) was a British historian and biographer specializing in the Victorian era. Her most notable works include Florence Nightingale (1950), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Reason Why (1953) on the Charge of the Light Brigade, The Great Hunger (1962) on the Irish Potato Famine, and the first volume of Queen Victoria: Her Life and Times (1972). She was appointed CBE in 1960 and received honorary doctorates from the National University of Ireland and the University of St Andrews.