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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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. 122 |
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 | 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. 58-9 |
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. 6 |
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... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Forster | For subjects of particular chapters she chooses Caroline Norton
, Elizabeth Blackwell
, Florence Nightingale
, Josephine Butler
, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
, Margaret Sanger
, and Emma Goldman
, selected this time not for... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | Female Industry is a wide-ranging review covering the 1851 census results, the reports of Poor Law Commissioners
on women and children in agriculture, the Governesses' Benevolent Institution
, and The Lowell Offering, as well... |