Rosalind Nash

Rosalind Shore-Smith was born into a landowning family in Kensington, London, in December 1862. She was the elder daughter of Florence Nightingale's cousin William Shore Smith (afterwards Shore Nightingale),{{Cite book |last=McDonald |first=Lynn |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Florence_Nightingale_on_Women_Medicine_M.html?id=Yuh0CwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y |title=Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 8 |date=2006-01-01 |publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press |isbn=978-0-88920-916-9 |pages=944 |language=en}} whom Florence Nightingale "regarded almost as a brother".

She was educated at Girton College, University of Cambridge,{{Citation |last=Madden |first=Kirsten |title=The Women’s Cooperative Guild |date=2024-06-05 |work=Building a Social Science: 19th Century British Cooperative Thought |pages=0 |editor-last=Madden |editor-first=Kirsten |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/56397/chapter-abstract/448368878?redirectedFrom=fulltext |access-date=2025-04-10 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/oso/9780197693735.003.0007 |isbn=978-0-19-769373-5 |last2=Persky |first2=Joseph |editor2-last=Persky |editor2-first=Joseph}} where she became close friends with Margaret Llewelyn Davies.{{Cite book |last=Scott |first=Gillian |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YoGNAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1913&dq=rosalind+nash&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjzu8Gih86MAxVcRUEAHSlmFgwQ6AF6BAgJEAM |title=Feminism, Femininity and the Politics of Working Women: The Women's Co-Operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War |date=2005-08-11 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-36030-6 |pages=1913 |language=en}}

Barbara (nee Margaret Thyra Barbara Shore-Smith), Rosalind's sister, married barrister and Judge of the Calcutta High Court Sir Harry Lushington Stephen.{{Cite book |last=Addison |first=Henry Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7khLAAAAMAAJ |title=Who's who |last2=Oakes |first2=Charles Henry |last3=Lawson |first3=William John |last4=Sladen |first4=Douglas Brooke Wheelton |date=1906 |publisher=A. & C. Black |pages=58 |language=en}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/handlist3.htm |title=The Florence Nightingale Museum |access-date=13 January 2007 |archive-date=5 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061105031506/http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/handlist3.htm |url-status=dead }} In 1893, Nash married the progressive economist Vaughan Nash (1861–1932) and they lived at Loughton in Essex.{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=J. M. |title=Nash, Rosalind Frances Mary [née Rosalind Frances Mary Shore Smith] (1862–1952) |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-58468 |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/58468}}

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. She was also a suffragist, supporting the campaign for women's enfranchisement.{{Cite book |last=Holton |first=Sandra Stanley |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3P3iQCEOoDQC&pg=PA62&dq=rosalind+nash&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwia2pisic6MAxWsYEEAHTtPNaY4FBDoAXoECAcQAw |title=Feminism and Democracy: Women's Suffrage and Reform Politics in Britain, 1900-1918 |date=2003-12-18 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-52121-5 |pages=62 |language=en}}

Nash worked as a journalist, primarily writing about women's suffrage and labour issues such as the conditions of dangerous trades.{{Cite book |last=Bartrip |first=P. W. J. |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bf_0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA291&dq=rosalind+nash&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjzu8Gih86MAxVcRUEAHSlmFgwQ6AF6BAgMEAM |title=The Home Office and the Dangerous Trades: Regulating Occupational Disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain |date=2016-08-22 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-33348-2 |pages=291 |language=en}} 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.

Nash died in 1952. She was buried with her husband, who had predeceased her by twenty years in 1932, in the graveyard in the parish church of St. Margaret of Antioch, Wellow, Hampshire.Lee, J. M. (2008) {{Cite ODNB|title=Nash, Vaughan Robinson (1861–1932), journalist and public servant journalist|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-40819|access-date=2022-10-07|date=2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/40819|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8}}

• The accidents compensation act 1897, 1897
• Life and death in the potteries, 1898
• A Sketch of the Life of Florence Nightingale
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• (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

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