Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century

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 women’s place within these domains during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

• 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 Woman’s 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’, Macmillan’s 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