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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 | 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 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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... |
Education | Sophia Jex-Blake | The two women first had to complete their medical degrees at Bern in Switzerland, then gain clinical experience in London, before sitting the examinations in Dublin. Annie Clark
, Eliza Walker Dunbar |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
politics | Jane Hume Clapperton | Others who attended the club included Annie Besant
, Olive Schreiner
, Elizabeth Blackwell
, Henrietta Müller
, and Eleanor Marx
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Feminism, Sex and Morality. Tauris Parke. 6 |
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 |