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.
Roberts, Shirley. Sophia Jex-Blake. Routledge.
128-30
Margaret Todd
describes the following review as a typical response to Medical Women: So convincing is...
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that as a contribution to science, the thesis was quickly outdated because it was written shortly before the adoption of germ theory.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
The significance of her essay is its effort to validate the work of Margaret Todd
, with whom she...
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Texts
Todd, Margaret. The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake. Macmillan, 1918.