EG
's great uncle Alexander Grant
was a popular Episcopalian preacher and wrote Sermons on Various Subjects and Occasions, published in 1800 in Dundee. Her aunt Mary Gillies
wrote for Howitt's Journal on...
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1884: Alexander Grant's history of Edinburgh University...
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1884
Alexander Grant
's history of Edinburgh University revealed that admission of female medical students had been considered solely because of low enrolment in the Faculty in 1869-1870.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.