Annie Clark (physician)
Dr. Annie Elizabeth Clark was among the earliest female medical students at Edinburgh University.[1] She is noted to have been affiliated with the group recognised as the Edinburgh Seven, which included Dr. Sophia L. Jex-Blake,[2] Isabel Thorne, Edith Pechey, Matilda Chaplin, Helen Evans and later Mary Anderson and Emily Bovell.
It is written that she travelled to the University of Bern with Jex-Blake and Pechey to study medicine.[3]
Born in 1844, Clark was fifth of the twelve children of James and Eleanor Clark of Street, Somerset.[4]
Clark established herself as an esteemed physician and was entrusted with the care of Dr. Jex-Blake in her later years, travelling from Birmingham to administer a treatment of anaesthetic.[5]
Committed to a career in medicine, Clark settled in Birmingham dedicating time to clinical work.[6]
References
- ↑ Holton, Sandra Stanley (1999). "To Live "through One's Own Powers": British Medicine, Tuberculosis, and "Invalidism" in the Life of Alice Clark (1874-1934)". Journal of Women's History. 11 (1): 75–96. doi:10.1353/jowh.2003.0097.
- ↑ "Women and their Work" (PDF) (Volume 4). The Nursing Record. 19 June 1890. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ↑ Kelly, Laura (February 2013). "'The turning point in the whole struggle': the admission of women to the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland". Women's History Review. 22 (1): 113. doi:10.1080/09612025.2012.724916.
- ↑ "Quaker Alphabet Blog 2015 - C for Annie Elizabeth Clark". Stumbling blocks to stepping stones. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ↑ Lutzker, Edythe (1969). Womain Gain a Place in Medicine. New York: McGraw Hill. p. 149.
- ↑ Stanley Holton, Sandra (2007). Quaker Women: Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780-1930. Routledge. p. 154. Retrieved 17 February 2015.