Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale is stationed at Lambeth Asylum in 1868. In The Lady with the Lamp she treats Clara O'Dea and asks Evie to recover the supplies needed to replace the counterfeit tonics flooding Lambeth after John Elliotson's death.
- Role
- Supporting
Good to know
- Voiced by Helen Johns.
- Born 12 May 1820 in Florence; died 13 August 1910 aged 90.
- Earned the name The Lady with the Lamp nursing soldiers in the Crimean War.
- Published Notes on Nursing in 1859 and founded a training school at St Thomas' Hospital the next year.
- One of the first people whose voice was recorded.
At Lambeth
The asylum is due to close, but Nightingale keeps treating the sick as fake tonics spread through the borough. Rare ingredients are being stolen and auctioned, so she sends Evie to get them back. Once she has supplies she hands out real medicine, and Evie funds her campaign for better sanitation.
Rescuing Darwin
In A Struggle for Existence she learns a policeman has taken Charles Darwin away. She has a twin bring the officer to her, finds he was bribed, and insists on coming along to free Darwin, treating his injuries while the Assassin holds off the Templars. She then sends him to the Isle of Wight to recover.
OverdoseOverdose is the assassination of Dr John Elliotson inside Lambeth Asylum. As Jacob you explore the asylum, help a trapped nurse and stop a brutal electroshock session, then reach Elliotson's lecture theatre by hiding under the sheet of a cadaver.- The Lady with the LampThe Lady with the Lamp brings Evie back to Lambeth after the asylum's closure. When Clara O'Dea collapses at the asylum doors, Florence Nightingale takes her in and gives Evie a list of medicines to fetch from a peddler and a besieged pharmacist.
- A Struggle for ExistenceA Struggle for Existence is the fifth Charles Darwin memory: Florence Nightingale tells you a policeman has hauled Darwin away, and the two of you go after him. You kidnap the officer for answers, then fight through a Templar hideout while Nightingale treats Darwin.
- Charles Darwin's London StoriesCharles Darwin's London Stories are side memories in which the naturalist, a friend of the twins since the Starrick's Soothing Syrup affair, asks for help as his enemies turn from argument to threats. You protect a fossil, destroy toxic flowers, tear down smear posters and finally rescue Darwin himself.
Related characters
- Supporting
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin helps Jacob destroy the Soothing Syrup distillery in Sequence 4 and then gives the Charles Darwin London Stories, in which the twins protect his work and reputation from Templar-backed attacks.
- Antagonist
John Elliotson
Dr John Elliotson is the Templar physician behind Starrick's Soothing Syrup, the addictive tonic dulling London's poor. Jacob Frye tracks him down through Sequence 4 with Charles Darwin's help, and he is the target of the memory Overdose at Lambeth Asylum.
- Minor
Richard Owen
Richard Owen is the naturalist and Darwin rival Jacob chases down in On the Origin of Syrup. Rammed through traffic in his own carriage, he gives up the name of the Syrup's creator: Dr John Elliotson of Lambeth Asylum.
- Supporting
Clara O'Dea
Clara O'Dea is the young girl who runs London's network of street urchins and pickpockets. She trades her intelligence to Jacob and Evie Frye on one condition: that they free the children forced to work in the city's factories, which is the Child Liberation activity.