Her admission was strongly opposed by many faculty members on the basis of gender, but most fervently by Sir Robert Christison
. Jex-Blake had some supporters within the faculty as well, including Professor David Masson
Literary responses
Mary Oxlie
MO
has had an almost uniformly enthusiastic press. Her poem was praised by David Masson
, who published a biography of Drummond in 1873, and by the late twentieth-century scholar Robert H. Macdonald. Tillie Olsen
Publishing
Christina Rossetti
On her own initiative, CR
in 1861 sent several short poems to Macmillan's Magazine. The editor, David Masson
, accepted Up-hill and paid her a guinea for it. Thereafter, she published poems in this...
Textual Production
Frances Power Cobbe
Cobbe made her first money—£14—for a contribution to Macmillan's Magazine called Workhouse Sketches (later collected in Essays on the Pursuits of Women). She agreed with editor David Masson
's request that she sign her...
