Sophia Jex-Blake

Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake (21 January 1840 – 7 January 1912) wis an English physician, teacher and feminist. She led the campaign fur tae siccar weemen's access tae a University eddication whan she an sax ither weemen, kent awthegither as the Edinburgh Seven, began studyin medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. She wis the first practisin female doctor in Scotland, and ane o the first in the wider Unitit Kingdom o Great Britain and Ireland; a leadin campaigner fur medical education for women and wis involved in fundin twa medical scuils fur weemen, in London and Edinburgh at a time whan nae ither medical scuils wis trainin weemen.

Dr Sophia Jex-Blake
Portrait by Samuel Laurence 1865
Born	Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake 21 Januar 1840(1840-01-21) Hastings, Sussex, England
Dee'd	7 Januar 1912(1912-01-07) (aged 71) Mark Cross, Rotherfield, Sussex, England
Kent for	campaigning for women's medical education member of the Edinburgh Seven
Medical career
Perfaision	physician and teacher

Mair readin

• Allen, Maggie; Elder, Michael (1981). The walls of Jericho – a novel based on the life of Sophia Jex-Blake. ISBN 978-0-563-17929-0.
• Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (1990). "Women in Science: Antiquity through Nineteenth Century A Biographical Dictionary". Massachusetts, USA: MIT.
• Lovejoy, Esther Pohl (1957). Women Doctors of the World. London: Macmillan.
• Roberts, Shirley (1993). Sophia Jex-Blake. London: Routledge.
• Roberts, Shirley (2004). "Sophia Jex-Blake". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
• Margaret Todd (1918). "The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake". Nature. 101 (2546): 461–462. Bibcode:1918Natur.101..461S. doi:10.1038/101461a0. S2CID 4256938. is available at the Internet Archive
• McCullins, Darren (16 November 2018). "Blazing a trail for first women doctors". BBC News.
• Scott, Nicola (2018). "Jex-Blake, Sophia". The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 218–219.

External links

• Works by or about Sophia Jex-Blake at Internet Archive
• JM Somerville, Dr Sophia Jex-Blake and the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, 1886–1898 (2005) (PDF)
• Harvard University. Corporation. Committee on Admitting Women to the Medical School. Report 1867. 23 March. HUA. Call #HUG 4823.72
• Portraits o Sophia Jex-Blake at the National Portrait Gallery, Lunnon