SJB
insisted that she had little or no interest in the novels' literary value.
Jex-Blake, Sophia. “Medical Women in Fiction”. The Nineteenth Century, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, pp. 261-72.
261
The significance of her essay is its effort to validate the work of Margaret Todd
, with whom she...
Literary responses
Sophia Jex-Blake
Medical Women was both SJB
's best‐known work and a landmark text, referenced in many academic publications.
Roberts, Shirley. Sophia Jex-Blake. Routledge.
128-30
Margaret Todd
describes the following review as a typical response to Medical Women: So convincing is...
Literary responses
Sophia Jex-Blake
Margaret Todd
admits in her biography of SJB
that as a contribution to science, the thesis was quickly outdated because it was written shortly before the adoption of germ theory. In his 1986 article about...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sophia Jex-Blake
She shared this stage of her life with a younger fellow doctor, Margaret Todd
, who retired after practising for only five years in order to move in with SJB
. After this Todd devoted...
death
Sophia Jex-Blake
SJB
died peacefully, with Margaret Todd
at her side. Todd spent the last few years of her own life writing her last book, The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake, and not long after it was...
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Texts
Todd, Margaret. The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake. Macmillan, 1918.