Who influenced Florence Nightingale?

*Mary Clarke, who demonstrated that women could be equals to men and this was an idea that Florence had not obtained from her mother.
* Florence's family influenced her negatively because they suggested she should be a wife and mother as a woman of her status.
*she was also influenced by "acts of god" that made her want to take up a position of servitude.
*It was at Embley Park in February 1837 that Florence received a calling from God; she wrote “God has spoke to me and called me to His service.” Though she did not know what that service would be, she knew that the society life her parents and sister enjoyed so much was not going to be enough for her. She had begun a courtship with Richard Monckton Milnes, a childhood friend, and began spending time visiting the poor and sick. She asked to stay on at Lea Hurst after the rest of the family returned to Embley in 1843, but Fanny would not allow it. In the fall of 1845, the village of Wellow was hit with an influenza epidemic, and Florence nursed several people on their deathbed.