Elizabeth Ann Blackwell

The Letter

Essays in Medical Sociology

Pioneer Work In Opening The Medical Profession To Women

Laws of Life With Special Reference to Physical Education of Girls

Pioneer Work In Opening The Medical Profession To Women

Pioneer Work In Opening The Medical Profession To Women

Frommer's Portable Chicago

Frommer's 2007 Chicago

The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician

When British-born Elizabeth Blackwell earned her medical degree in America in 1849 there was an international outcry. Few at the time would have disagreed with the actress Fanny Kemble’s remark – “What, trust a woman doctor – never!” Yet by the time Dr Blackwell died in 1910 there were hundreds of...

Elizabeth Blackwell: First Woman M.D. (Barnard Biography)

Victorian Society recoiled at the thought of a woman learning about the human body. Yet in 1847, Elizabeth Blackwell was determined to become a physician--one who would not just improve the practice of medicine, but would also provide desperately needed medical care for the women of her time. Author...

Pioneer Work In Opening The Medical Profession To Women (Classics in Women's Studies)

Born in England, she immigrated with her family to the United States in 1832. After teaching school for more than a decade, the medical profession gradually became an irresistible calling, and she began applying to medical schools. After being rejected by the leading schools, Geneva Medical School (...

The Letter

So begins the passionate letter Cassie Armstrong finds hidden among her grandmother's quilting supplies. It's signed with the mysterious initials F.B. and Cassie has no idea who that is. It's certainly not her grandfather, Henry, a man more comfortable with actions than with words. Learning that h...

Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell (Christy Ottaviano Books)

In the 1830s, when a brave and curious girl named Elizabeth Blackwell was growing up, women were supposed to be wives and mothers. Some women could be teachers or seamstresses, but career options were few. Certainly no women were doctors. But Elizabeth refused to accept the common beliefs that women...

While Beauty Slept

“Elizabeth Blackwell is a story-telling genius. Her mesmerizing writing weaves a spell that will enchant you. While Beauty Slept breathes new life into the fairytale genre with a historical twist that will take your breath away.” —Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diari...

In the Shadow of Lakecrest

The year is 1928. Kate Moore is looking for a way out of the poverty and violence of her childhood. When a chance encounter on a transatlantic ocean liner brings her face-to-face with the handsome heir to a Chicago fortune, she thinks she may have found her escape—as long as she can keep her past co...

Elizabeth Blackwell:America's First Woman Doctor

Tells the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. Written in graphic-novel format.

Elizabeth Cady Stant

…Amendment was making its way through Congress, Stanton's position had led to a major schism in the women's rights movement itself. Many leaders in the women's rights movement, including Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe, strongly argued against Stanton's "all or nothing" p...

Prominent Americans series

…igner, presumably in a quest for wide diversitya significant departure from the uniformity of concept that had marked previous definitive issues. That portraits of two women appear in the series (Elizabeth Blackwell and Lucy Stone) represented a small but significant step toward gender equal...