Taylor accompanied Florence Nightingale to Scutari, and worked as nurse in the military hospitals. She provided one of the first eye-witness acounts of military hospitals at Scutari and Koulali, and wrote about the management of military hospitals generally. While in the Crimea she converted to Catholicism. After she became a nun she was known as Mother Magdalen of the Sacred Heart. Digital facsimile of the revised third edition (1857) from Google Books at this link.