“It is a grand thing to enter the very first British University ever opened to women, isn't it?”
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Sophia Jex-Blake
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. She led the campaign to secure women access to a university education, when she began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. She was the first practising female doctor in Scotland, and one of the first in the wider United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; a leading campaigner for medical education for w…
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science · British physician and suffragist (1840–1912) · physician · teacher · writer · journalist · suffragist · also Sophia Jex-Blake, Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, Jex-Blake
Born 21 January 1840 · Died 7 January 1912 · Q452029
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2021· 1 entry
A production of a dramatic piece about the experiences of Jex-Blake and the Edinburgh Seven, Sophia, by Scottish playwright Frances Poet, was announced
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2020· 1 entry
Bellfield Brewery launched a new India pale ale named after Sophia Jex-Blake
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2015· 1 entry
An Historic Scotland plaque was unveiled to commemorate the Surgeons' Hall Riot of 18 November 1870
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1912· 1 entry
Died 1912-01-07.
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1899· 1 entry
Moved to Windydene, Mark Cross, Rotherfield, where Dr Todd wrote The Way of Escape in 1902 and Growth in 1906
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1898· 1 entry
The Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children moved to this site, and became known as Bruntsfield Hospital, where it continued to function until 1989
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1892· 1 entry
University of Edinburgh allowed female medical students to take its degree examinations
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1889· 1 entry
Where Jex-Blake was successfully sued for damages
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1886· 1 entry
Established the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women
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1881· 1 entry
Sophia Jex-Blake had a period of depressed reclusiveness
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1874· 1 entry
Sophia Jex-Blake helped establish the London School of Medicine for Women, which became the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine for Women, but also continued campaigning and studying
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1870· 1 entry
“On the afternoon of Friday 18th November 1870, we walked to the Surgeon”
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1869· 2 entries
Jex-Blake's essay "Medicine as a profession for women" appeared in a book edited by Josephine Butler: Women's Work and Women's Culture
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On behalf of the group of five women initially (Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans, Sophia Jex-Blake, Edith Pechey, and Isabel Thorne)
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1867· 1 entry
Along with Susan Dimock, a trainee from the New England hospital, she wrote directly to the president and fellows of Harvard University, requesting admission to the university's medical school
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1865· 1 entry
Once the Civil War was over, Sophia Jex-Blake travelled to the United States to learn more about women's education
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1859· 1 entry
While still a student, she was offered a post as mathematics tutor at the college where she stayed until 1861, living for some of that time with Octavia Hill's family
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1858· 1 entry
Enrolled at Queen's College, London, despite her parents' objections
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1840· 1 entry
Born 1840-01-21.
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