University of Edinburgh

Fleeming (pronounced Fleming) Jenkin had great abilities that were evident from an early age. His biographer, Robert Louis Stevenson , rates his mother's influence over him very high, and admires though he cannot wholly approve...

SJB officially applied to study medicine at Edinburgh University .

SJB placed an advertisement in The Times asking women interested in entering a medical faculty to contact her. Her aim was to institute separate lectures for women and eventually that women should matriculate at Edinburgh University

Under pressure from SJB , the Chancellor of Edinburgh University approved a proposal to admit the first female medical students at a British university.

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...

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.

Seeking justice for the riot against female medical students at Edinburgh on 18 November 1870, SJB addressed the Infirmary Board at the Annual Meeting of Contributors.

SJB was found guilty of slander against Edinburgh University in her speech to the Royal Infirmary board on 2 January 1871 when she claimed that the riot over female medical students was instigated by faculty...

While still a student at Edinburgh , SJB published, and dedicated to her American mentor Dr Lucy SewallMedical Women: Two Essays: i.e. Medicine as a Profession for Women (a revised version of her...

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...

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...

During his youth, Chen spent a decade in Britain, studying literature at Edinburgh University, then moving to the London School of Economics to take his doctorate in politics and economics with Harold Laski ...

LL 's several positions as Writer-in-Residence have included Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee (1980), the Tattenhall Centre , near Chester (1982-84), Edinburgh University (1985-87), and the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1988-89, on...

Her parents had met and fallen in love as students at Edinburgh University .

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...