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Article: Learned and ingenious ladies; British bluestockings.(Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education)(Book review)
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- The Economist (US)
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- August 8, 2009
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Degrees of separation
"IT IS clear what has to be done," said Emily Davies to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson during a fireside chat one evening in 1860. "I must devote myself to securing higher education while you open the medical profession for women." Each succeeded admirably in her allotted task. Garrett Anderson started practising as Britain's first female doctor in 1865, qualifying via the Society of Apothecaries when medical schools refused to admit her. In 1869 Davies rented Benslow House in Hitchin, a southern English market town, for herself and five young women who, with the support of professors who travelled from Cambridge, under an hour away by train, ...