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Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | 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... |
Textual Production | Sophia Jex-Blake | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sophia Jex-Blake | |
Education | Sophia Jex-Blake | SJB
officially applied to study medicine at Edinburgh University
. Todd, Margaret. The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake. Macmillan. 235 |
Education | Sophia Jex-Blake | 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 |
Education | Sophia Jex-Blake | Under pressure from SJB
, the Chancellor of Edinburgh University approved a proposal to admit the first female medical students at a British university. Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press. 102 |
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. 125-8 |
politics | Sophia Jex-Blake | |
politics | Sophia Jex-Blake | 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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Sophia Jex-Blake | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ling Shuhua | During his youth, Chen
spent a decade in Britain, studying literature at Edinburgh University, then moving to the |
Occupation | Liz Lochhead | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Shena Mackay | Her parents had met and fallen in love as students at Edinburgh University
. |
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... |
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