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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Sophia Jex-Blake | The two women first had to complete their medical degrees at Bern in Switzerland, then gain clinical experience in London, before sitting the examinations in Dublin. Annie Clark
, Eliza Walker Dunbar |
Family and Intimate relationships | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | By their marriages, ABB
and Lucy Stone
became sisters-in-law of Elizabeth Blackwell
, the first woman to qualify as a physician in the USA. |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | They became close to a young friend met in Rome, Margaret Foley
, a sculptor from New England, who took up summer residence in the same spot. Visitors to their house in Rome included... |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Coventry Patmore
and the pioneer doctor Elizabeth Blackwell
lived in the same village as MBE
. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893. 122 |
Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | Her notoriety (following the war and from her later work) placed FN
in the society of many important contemporaries, including every Prime Minister of her time. Dolan, Josephine A. Nursing In Society: A Historical Perspective. Saunders, 1973. 176 |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Barbara Leigh Smith (later BLSB
) and Bessie Rayner Parkes
met Dr Elizabeth Blackwell
, then the western world's only qualified female physician. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985. 58-9 |
Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | In later years she became friendly with hymn-writer Elizabeth Rundle Charles
. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 338 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sophia Jex-Blake | Jex-Blake's essay was heavily influenced by her relationship with Dr Lucy Sewall
. By her late twenties, Sewall had established a national reputation for her work as a woman doctor. SJB
also drew on a... |
politics | Sophia Jex-Blake | She aimed to establish credibility for a female medical college by gathering an impressive group of physicians. They included the editor of the British Medical Journal, Ernest Hart
, Thomas Henry Huxley
, Dr... |
politics | Sophia Jex-Blake | The school was located at 30 Henrietta Street, Brunswick Square. It opened with fourteen students (one of them Jex-Blake herself) on 12 October. Thirteen people contributed £1,000 each towards the organization. Students had to... |
politics | Jane Hume Clapperton | Others who attended the club included Annie Besant
, Olive Schreiner
, Elizabeth Blackwell
, Henrietta Müller
, and Eleanor Marx
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Feminism, Sex and Morality. Tauris Parke, 2002. 6 |
politics | Emily Davies | ED
's friend Elizabeth Garrett
determined to become a doctor after hearing Dr Elizabeth Blackwell
lecture. When Garrett found her studies at Middlesex Hospital
impeded by the medical profession's prejudice against women, ED
helped her... |
Author summary | Sophia Jex-Blake | In a society that valued modesty, where women refrained from seeking treatment from male doctors for some medical problems, SJB
saw a need for women doctors. Through extensive conflict, she became the third woman to... |
Reception | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold
thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sophia Jex-Blake | SJB
here discusses the benefit of women doctors in the treatment of female patients. She takes the reader through a timeline of women in medicine, dating back as far as ancient Greece, and including... |