Rosalind Nash

Rosalind Frances Nash, née Shore-Smith (December 1862 – 17 October 1952) was an English journalist and co-operator. She was the niece and confidante of Florence Nightingale.

Biography Rosalind Shore-Smith was born into a landowning family in Kensington, London, in December 1862. whom Florence Nightingale "regarded almost as a brother". where she became close friends with Margaret Llewelyn Davies.

Barbara (nee Margaret Thyra Barbara Shore-Smith), Rosalind's sister, married barrister and Judge of the Calcutta High Court Sir Harry Lushington Stephen. In 1893, Nash married the progressive economist Vaughan Nash (1861–1932) and they lived at Loughton in Essex.

Nash was a member of the Co-operative Women's Guild, which she referred to as "a kind of trade union" for housewives during a paper "The Position of Married Women," presented at the Guild Congress in 1907.

Nash worked as a journalist, primarily writing about women's suffrage and labour issues such as the conditions of dangerous trades. She assisted in some of Nightingale's publications, and wrote on her behalf to Karl Pearson while he was writing his biography of Francis Galton. After Florence Nightingale's death, her husband Vaughan Nash played an important role in collating and copying her correspondence.

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