What's in a name

This small sculpture belonged to the Nightingale family, who had links to Derbyshire.Florence Nightingale's father built a textile business at Lea Mills, near Cromford and the family lived at Lea Hall when Florence was young. In later life she supported the Holloway reading room and Lea school.She was an invalid for many years after her involvement in the Crimean War and died in 1910 at the age of ninety. This statue was donated to the Old House Museum, along with a tiny blouse said to have belonged to Florence herself. At first it seemed too Edwardian in style, but on realising that she lived into the twentieth century, it seemed possible that it could have belonged to her. This sculpture belonged to Florence's sister Parthenope. Nowadays celebrities name their children after the cities where they were conceived. Too much information! Florence and her sister were named after the Italian cities where they were born. Florence is obvious. Parthenope is the Greek version of Naples (and is pronounced like Penelope).