As an exciting, challenging, and for some, repulsive, novelty and phenomenon, the medical woman was fictionalised swiftly in the second half of the nineteenth century. This volume reproduces literary examples which explore the many facets of women’s entry into the medical profession, and their experiences once qualified. This volume broadens literary and cultural understanding of female doctors through the selection of sources which are less well-known or more difficult to find, as well as considering global examples or contexts. By including sources which reveal both supportive and derogatory assessments, and by male and female authors, a wide range of opinions regarding women’s efficacy as medical practitioners are considered. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this title will be of great interest to students of Women's History and the History of Medicine.
This volume reproduces literary examples which explore the many facets of women’s entry into the medical profession, and their experiences once qualified, during the long nineteenth century. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this title will be of great interest to students of Women's History and the History of Medicine.
Volume II: Medical Women Volume II - Introduction
1. F.I. The Medical
Wife, Medical Times and Gazette, II (4 September 1875), p. 283.2.
Major-General G.G. Alexander, CB, And There Was Light and Grouped on the
Lawn, in Dr Victoria: A Picture from the Period, three volumes (London:
Samuel Tinsley & Co., 1881), pp. 175-197, 198-222.
3. Sydney C. Grier (Hilda
Caroline Gregg), Peace with Honour (London and Edinburgh: Blackwood & Sons,
1897); (Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1902), pp. 1-14, 103-137, 169-186,
255-274, 330-349, 349-413.
4. Julia Grice, A Maiden Effort, B. Rosalie
Slaughter, One Short Hour, Dr Gertrude A. Walker, The Greatest of These
is Love, Dr Hester A. Hewlings, Dr Honora, in Daughters of Aesculapius:
Stories Written by Alumnae and Students of the Womans Medical College of
Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Co., 1897), pp. 43-52,
66-79, 80-107, 133-149.
5. L.M.C. Armstrong, Gertrude Mason, M.D. Or The Lady
Doctor. A Farce in One Act for Female Characters Only (New York: Harold
Roorbach, 1898).
6. Cornelia Sorabji, Behind the Purdah, Macmillans
Magazine, LXXXII:489 (July 1900), pp. 193-200; reproduced in Love and Life
Behind the Purdah (London: Fremantle & Co., 1901).
7. Juliet Wilbor Tompkins,
Dr Ellen (New York: The Baker and Taylor Company, 1908), pp. 40-49, 187-204,
218-242, Index
Dr Claire Brock is Associate Professor in the School of Arts at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research interests are in the history of science and medicine, with a focus on womens place within these domains during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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