lady with the lamp

Nightingale had earned the moniker “Lady with the Lamp” by making night rounds on patients, illuminated by a paper lantern.

They called her “the Lady with the Lamp” and “the Angel of Crimea.”

Nightingale, a British nurse organizer during the Crimean War whose likeness appears on 10-pound notes, was known as the Lady with the Lamp, and the nurses in Rojo’s “Raymonda” carry lamps through darkness, too.

Dubbed “the Lady with the Lamp,” Florence Nightingale rose to prominence when tending to casualties in the Crimean War.

She was in charge of nursing British and allied soldiers in Turkey during the Crimean War of the 1850s, her selfless care earning her the reputation as the “Lady with the Lamp.”