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Elizabeth Blackwell
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Standard Name: Blackwell, Elizabeth,, 1821 - 1910
Used Form: Dr Elizabeth Blackwell
Connections
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sophia Jex-Blake | SJB
here discusses the benefit of women doctors in the treatment of female patients. She takes the reader through a timeline of women in medicine, dating back as far as ancient Greece, and including... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | Female Industry is a wide-ranging review covering the 1851 census results, the reports of Poor Law Commissioners
on women and children in agriculture, the Governesses' Benevolent Institution
, and The Lowell Offering, as well... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Forster | For subjects of particular chapters she chooses Caroline Norton
, Elizabeth Blackwell
, Florence Nightingale
, Josephine Butler
, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
, Margaret Sanger
, and Emma Goldman
, selected this time not for... |
Reception | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold
thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time... |
Author summary | Sophia Jex-Blake | In a society that valued modesty, where women refrained from seeking treatment from male doctors for some medical problems, SJB
saw a need for women doctors. Through extensive conflict, she became the third woman to... |
politics | Jane Hume Clapperton | Others who attended the club included Annie Besant
, Olive Schreiner
, Elizabeth Blackwell
, Henrietta Müller
, and Eleanor Marx
. Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Feminism, Sex and Morality. Tauris Parke. 6 |
politics | Emily Davies | ED
's friend Elizabeth Garrett
determined to become a doctor after hearing Dr Elizabeth Blackwell
lecture. When Garrett found her studies at Middlesex Hospital
impeded by the medical profession's prejudice against women, ED
helped her... |
politics | Sophia Jex-Blake | She aimed to establish credibility for a female medical college by gathering an impressive group of physicians. They included the editor of the British Medical Journal, Ernest Hart
, Thomas Henry Huxley
, Dr... |
politics | Sophia Jex-Blake | The school was located at 30 Henrietta Street, Brunswick Square. It opened with fourteen students (one of them Jex-Blake herself) on 12 October. Thirteen people contributed £1,000 each towards the organization. Students had to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sophia Jex-Blake | Jex-Blake's essay was heavily influenced by her relationship with Dr Lucy Sewall
. By her late twenties, Sewall had established a national reputation for her work as a woman doctor. SJB
also drew on a... |
Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | Her notoriety (following the war and from her later work) placed FN
in the society of many important contemporaries, including every Prime Minister of her time. Dolan, Josephine A. Nursing In Society: A Historical Perspective. Saunders. 176 |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Coventry Patmore
and the pioneer doctor Elizabeth Blackwell
lived in the same village as MBE
. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 122 |
Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | In later years she became friendly with hymn-writer Elizabeth Rundle Charles
. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 338 |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Barbara Leigh Smith (later BLSB
) and Bessie Rayner Parkes
met Dr Elizabeth Blackwell
, then the western world's only qualified female physician. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 58-9 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | They became close to a young friend met in Rome, Margaret Foley
, a sculptor from New England, who took up summer residence in the same spot. Visitors to their house in Rome included... |
Timeline
1849: Elizabeth Blackwell earned a medical degree...
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1849
Elizabeth Blackwell
earned a medical degree from Geneva Medical College
in New York State, becoming the first woman to graduate from an American medical school.
1852: Dr Elizabeth Blackwell published The Laws...
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1852
Dr Elizabeth Blackwell
published The Laws of Life, with Special Reference to the Physical Education of Girls.
1 January 1859: Elizabeth Blackwell became the first female...
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1 January 1859
Elizabeth Blackwell
became the first female physician listed on the United Kingdom Medical Register.
January 1859: Physician Elizabeth Blackwell delivered a...
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January 1859
Physician Elizabeth Blackwell
delivered a series of lectures in London; extracts from them appeared in the English Woman's Journal.
May 1859: Elizabeth Blackwell toured England, lecturing...
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May 1859
Elizabeth Blackwell
toured England, lecturing on the topic of medical reform in Manchester, Birmingham, and Liverpool.
January 1860: The English Woman's Journal published Elizabeth...
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January 1860
The English Woman's Journal published Elizabeth Blackwell
's article entitled Letter to Young Ladies Desirous of Studying Medicine.
: Elizabeth Blackwell returned to Britain from...
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Summer1869
Elizabeth Blackwell
returned to Britain from the United States (where she had taken her degree), and began practicing medicine in London.
1876: Elizabeth Blackwell found a publisher for...
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1876
Elizabeth Blackwell
found a publisher for her recently completed manuscript, but only after altering the title to emphasize her authority as a doctor.
Between 1881 and 1886: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony,...
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Between 1881 and 1886
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
, Susan B. Anthony
, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
published the first three volumes of their History of Woman Suffrage. They dedicated the first volume to the memory of Mary Wollstonecraft
.
1881: Elizabeth Blackwell proposed improvements...
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1881
Elizabeth Blackwell
proposed improvements to the Contagious Diseases Acts that would not discriminate against prostitutes.
1902: At the request of her friends a two-volume...
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1902
At the request of her friends a two-volume collection of the reprinted writings of Elizabeth Blackwell
appeared as Essays in Medical Sociology.
Texts
Blackwell, Elizabeth. Essays in Medical Sociology. Ernest Bell, 1902.