The woman's book : dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 70
ysician, Dr. John Dixon, andbecame absorbed in the medical booksof his library. She needed money, andthe salary paid to governesses was piti- moreover, her aim being a diploma andpractice, it was necessary that sheshould pass through a school to ob-tain it. She soon found that all doorswere closed… … Elizabeth Blackwell. The first woman practising physician. fully small. Dr. Dixon offered no en-couragement to the extraordinary plansof the young girl, but advised her whatto read. Her earnings went for books,which she read to such purpose that,when she finally obtained a position asgoverness in…
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