Elizabeth Blackwell

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

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.

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...

Coventry Patmore and the pioneer doctor Elizabeth Blackwell lived in the same village as MBE .

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. She maintained a correspondence with Cardinal Manning ...

Barbara Leigh Smith (later BLSB ) and Bessie Rayner Parkes met Dr Elizabeth Blackwell , then the western world's only qualified female physician.

In later years she became friendly with hymn-writer Elizabeth Rundle Charles . One of her closest non-literary friends was Mary Merryweather , a Quaker nurse who shared BRP 's interest in promoting standards of...

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...

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...

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...

Others who attended the club included Annie Besant , Olive Schreiner , Elizabeth Blackwell , Henrietta Müller , and Eleanor Marx .

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...

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...

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...

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...