Leonard Jolley
was the son of an Anglican clergyman. After he and Elizabeth Knight
(who had formerly nursed him) met again, by chance, in Birmingham, they began a love-relationship. They were later able to marry...
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Late June 1862: The Council of the College of Physicians...
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Late June 1862
The Council of the College of Physicians
in Edinburgh decided, by a vote of eighteen to sixteen, against admitting women.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
