University of Edinburgh

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Wealth and Poverty Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Money from the Pfeiffer trust was also given to Newnham , Girton , and Somerville College s, and many other institutions and agencies promoting women's education, including the Maria Grey Training College and the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
Wealth and Poverty Sophia Jex-Blake
The Times informed readers that each female medical student at Edinburgh University had to guarantee to pay 100 guineas for each class in their first year. SJB had to borrow money from her mother, not...
Violence Sophia Jex-Blake
Male students and other protesters gathered in front of University of EdinburghSurgeons' Hall in Edinburgh, in an effort to harass and intimidate SJB and the other female medical students.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sophia Jex-Blake
Both editions give an account of the Edinburgh riots of 1870; the second edition brings in more verbal testimony and a number of references to back up SJB 's claims. She maintains a strong voice...
Textual Production Sophia Jex-Blake
Following the official admittance of women to the medical exams at Edinburgh , SJB published her most significant work, the revised second edition of Medical Women: Two Essays, now retitled Medical Women: A Thesis...
Textual Production Annie S. Swan
Her papers are held at the University of Aberdeen , Edinburgh University , and Columbia University , New York, which holds both catalogued and uncatalogued correspondence by her in its collection of the papers...
Textual Production Lady Margaret Sackville
LMS published much of her work with small publishers and in limited edition chapbooks, now fragile and rare, though both the British Library and the Bodleian have most of her publications. She was a Fellow...
Textual Production Elizabeth Melvill
Some of EM 's letters, dating between 1625 and 1631, survive among her papers at the University of Edinburgh and were printed as Letters from Lady Culross, Etc., in Select Biographies, edited for the...
Textual Features Elizabeth Melvill
The volume closes with A comfortabill Song (beginning Away, vain world), which expresses faith in God's mercies and a resolution to pursue the Christian calling. It takes off from or parodies a recent madrigal...
Textual Features Emily Jane Pfeiffer
The poem is framed by a substantial first-person prose narrative about a party of people visiting the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. The speaker, evidently EJP herself, relates how her...
Residence Mary Stewart
Frederick Stewart , husband of MS , accepted a position at Edinburgh University as Regius Professor of geology. The couple moved to Edinburgh and MS decided to make writing her full-time occupation.
Stewart, Mary. About Mary Stewart. Musson.
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Residence Mary Stewart
MS 's husband, Sir Frederick , retired from the University of Edinburgh as Professor Emeritus, and in the same year the couple moved to the House of Letterawe in the Argyll village of Loch Awe (or Lochawe).
Wright, Pearce. “Sir Frederick Stewart: Master geologist steering science for academic and practical ends”. The Guardian.
Craig, Gordon. “Sir Frederick Henry Stewart”. The Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Thompson, Raymond H., and Mary Stewart. “Interview With Mary Stewart”. Taliesin’s Successors: Interviews with Authors of Modern Arthurian Literature, edited by Raymond H. Thompson, The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.
Residence Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
HCJ lived in the suburb of Merchiston, Edinburgh, where her son Fleeming held a professorship at Edinburgh University and where she became a much respected figure in local society.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin et al., Longmans, Green, p. 1: xi - clxx.
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Reception Mary Augusta Ward
In the very month of her death, MAW received an honorary degree from Edinburgh University .
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
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Reception Olive Schreiner
The Olive Schreiner Letters Project at the University of Edinburgh (website at www.oliveschreinerletters.ed.ac.uk) has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council to transcribe, analyse and publish the complete text of Schreiner's 7,000 or...

Timeline

14 April 1582: The College of Edinburgh (later the University...

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14 April 1582

The College of Edinburgh (later the University of Edinburgh) received its charter from James VI of Scotland (later James I of England).

1726: The University of Edinburgh established a...

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1726

The University of Edinburgh established a medical faculty and the first chair of obstetrics in Great Britain.

1748-51: Adam Smith delivered lectures on rhetoric...

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1748-51

Adam Smith delivered lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres at Edinburgh University : the first significant university programme devoted to the analysis of English literary discourse.

27 April 1762: The chair of Rhetoric to which Hugh Blair...

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27 April 1762

The chair of Rhetoric to which Hugh Blair (1718-1800) had been appointed at Edinburgh in 1760 was converted to a Regius Professorship of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.

1820: Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind...

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1820

Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown , Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University , appeared in four volumes in the year of his death.

1836: The Botanical Society of Edinburgh was f...

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1836

21 August 1865: The Manchester Guardian reported the scandalous...

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21 August 1865

The Manchester Guardian reported the scandalous discovery that medical army inspector James Barry, who had recently been found dead, had also been found to be a woman.

October 1865: Elizabeth Garrett obtained an apothecary's...

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October 1865

Elizabeth Garrett obtained an apothecary's licence through the Society of Apothecaries : this began her medical career, after her rejection by the Universities of London , Edinburgh , St Andrews , Oxford , and Cambridge .

1868: James Africanus Beale Horton published at...

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1868

James Africanus Beale Horton published at LondonWest African Countries and Peoples, British and Native, and A Vindication of the African Race, analysing the conditions required to establish self-government for his people.

: The five pioneering female medical students...

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Spring1870

The five pioneering female medical students at Edinburgh University were awarded significant honours.

March 1870: Edinburgh University student Mary Edith Pechey...

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March 1870

Edinburgh University student Mary Edith Pechey received the highest grades in her class for the Chemistry examination, but was denied the right to receive the Hope Scholarship.

October 1870: The General Council of Edinburgh University...

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October 1870

The General Council of Edinburgh University renewed their decision to keep female students out of the medical classes.

30 June 1871: After teaching female medical students for...

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30 June 1871

After teaching female medical students for thirteen months, the extra-mural lecturers at Edinburgh University revoked their resolution and announced that they would no longer teach separate classes.

October 1871: Under pressure from the public, the Senate...

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October 1871

Under pressure from the public, the Senate of Edinburgh University allowed the female medical students to sit the preliminary arts examinations, having previously banned them.

November 1871: The Senate of Edinburgh University decided...

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November 1871

The Senate of Edinburgh University decided to rescind all regulations allowing women entrance into the medical faculty.

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