Roberts, Shirley. Sophia Jex-Blake. Routledge.
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Margaret Todd
Standard Name: Todd, Margaret
Used Form: Graham Travers
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Sophia Jex-Blake | SJB
died peacefully, with Margaret Todd
at her side. Todd spent the last few years of her own life writing her last book, The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake, and not long after it was... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia Jex-Blake | She shared this stage of her life with a younger fellow doctor, Margaret Todd
, who retired after practising for only five years in order to move in with SJB
. After this Todd devoted... |
| Literary responses | Sophia Jex-Blake | Medical Women was both SJB
's best‐known work and a landmark text, referenced in many academic publications. |
| Literary responses | Sophia Jex-Blake | Margaret Todd
admits in her biography of SJB
that as a contribution to science, the thesis was quickly outdated because it was written shortly before the adoption of germ theory. In his 1986 article about... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sophia Jex-Blake | SJB
insisted that she had little or no interest in the novels' literary value. Jex-Blake, Sophia. “Medical Women in Fiction”. The Nineteenth Century, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, pp. 261-72. 261 |
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Texts
Todd, Margaret. The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake. Macmillan, 1918.