Emmy Rappe education of professional nurses in Sweden. She was sent as a student to Florence Nightingales school Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at St Thomas' Hospital in London (now part of King's College London) in 1866. She was personally tutored by Florence Nightingale, who was pleased with her as a student. Rappe shared the view upon nursing as a call. Emmy Rappe returned to Sweden in 1867, and studied at Sahlgrenska sjukhuset hospital in Göteborg and at others clinics in Stockholm. In 1867-1877, she was head nurse at the newly established Surgical Clinic at the Uppsala Academic Hospital, and
Florence Nightingale premiering in London in 1929 with Edith Evans in the title role. It did not portray her as an entirely sympathetic character and draws much characterisation from Lytton Strachey's biography of her in "Eminent Victorians". It was adapted as a film of the same name in 1951. In 2009, a stage musical play representation of Nightingale entitled "The Voyage of the Lass" was produced by the Association of Nursing Service Administrators of the Philippines. In 1912, a biographical silent film titled "The Victoria Cross", starring Julia Swayne Gordon as Nightingale, was released, followed in 1915 by another silent film, "Florence