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The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake

Travers, Graham · Public domain text

220,467 words · about 15 h 26 min to read

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Author
Graham Travers (1859–1918)
Language
English
Subjects
Jex-Blake, Sophia, 1840-1912
Length
220,467 words · about 15 h 26 min
Sections
48 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (48)
  1. Opening about 1 min
  2. Preface about 2 min
  3. I. DRIFTING 213 about 5 min
  4. VI. DRIVING TOURS. ANIMAL FRIENDS 513 about 1 min
  5. I. CHILDHOOD about 15 min
  6. II. SCHOOL LIFE about 20 min
  7. III. SCHOOL LIFE—Continued about 18 min
  8. IV. SCHOOL LIFE—Concluded about 27 min
  9. V. LIFE AT HOME about 20 min
  10. VI. LIFE AT QUEEN’S COLLEGE about 27 min
  11. VII. FRIENDSHIP about 28 min
  12. VIII. A STEP BEYOND about 12 min
  13. IX. FIRST EXPERIENCE OF EDINBURGH about 24 min
  14. X. GERMANY about 20 min
  15. XI. LIFE AS A TEACHER AT MANNHEIM about 32 min
  16. XII. VARIOUS PROJECTS AND VENTURES about 20 min
  17. XIII. A VISIT TO SOME AMERICAN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES about 22 min
  18. XIV. QUESTIONINGS about 27 min
  19. XV. PIONEER WORK IN AMERICA about 24 min
  20. XVI. GOING HOME about 13 min
  21. I. DRIFTING about 7 min
  22. II. AT THE GATES OF THE CITADEL about 23 min
  23. III. SUCCESS? about 16 min
  24. IV. A CHECK about 18 min
  25. V. OPENING OF EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY TO WOMEN about 14 min
  26. VI. THE HOPE SCHOLARSHIP about 22 min
  27. VII. PRACTICAL DIFFICULTIES about 14 min
  28. VIII. THE RIOT AT SURGEONS’ HALL about 33 min
  29. IX. THE ACTION FOR LIBEL about 22 min
  30. X. SOME FRIENDSHIPS AND HOLIDAYS about 15 min
  31. XI. THE QUESTION OF PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION about 14 min
  32. XII. THE ROYAL INFIRMARY about 18 min
  33. XIII. THE ACTION AGAINST THE SENATUS about 16 min
  34. XIV. THE LORD ORDINARY’S JUDGMENT about 23 min
  35. XV. PAYING THE PRICE about 18 min
  36. XVI. END OF THE BATTLE IN EDINBURGH about 15 min
  37. XVII. THE QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT about 26 min
  38. XVIII. THE LONDON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FOR WOMEN about 11 min
  39. XIX. THE RUSSELL GURNEY ENABLING ACT about 20 min
  40. XX. AT LAST about 6 min
  41. XXI. THE ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL about 16 min
  42. I. EARLY DAYS IN PRACTICE about 24 min
  43. II. LAST ILLNESS OF MRS. JEX-BLAKE about 8 min
  44. III. PATIENTS AND FRIENDS about 22 min
  45. IV. PUBLIC LIFE about 19 min
  46. V. RE-OPENING OF EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY TO WOMEN about 17 min
  47. VI. DRIVING TOURS. ANIMAL FRIENDS about 16 min
  48. VII. THE SABBATICAL YEAR about 1 h 34 min

The opening of Preface

There are several reasons why it has seemed worth while to write the life of Sophia Jex-Blake at some length.

1. She was one of the people who really do live. In the present day a woman is fitted into her profession almost as a man is. Sixty years ago a highly dowered girl was faced by a great venture, a great quest. The life before her was an uncharted sea. She had to find her self, to find her way, to find her work. In many respects youth was incomparably the most interesting period of a life history.

2. S. J.-B. has left behind her (as probably no woman of equal power has done) the record of this quest. She was a born chronicler: almost in her babyhood she struggled laboriously to get on to paper her doings and dreams; and she was truthful to a fault.

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