Margaret Todd, The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake, First Edition, 1918
First Edition
Margaret Todd. Life of Sophia Jex-Blake. London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1918. First Edition. 574 pages. Original cloth board. 9 x 6 in. Frontispiece portrait of Jex-Blake.Sophia Jex-Blake was the first practicing female doctor in Scotland and one of the first in the wider United Kingdom. She led the campaign to secure women access to a University education when she and six other women, collectively known as the Edinburgh Seven, began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. A leading campaigner for medical education for women and was involved in founding two medical schools for women, in London and Edinburgh at a time when no other medical schools were training women. In addition to her medicine work, she led the campaign for women's rights to a University education in the UK. Comes with rare pamphlet reprinted from R.F.H. Magazine, detailing her life. Very good.
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