1893 MONA MACLEAN MEDICAL STUDENT BY MARGARET TODD 3 Vs

Margaret Georgina Todd 1859-1918 was a physician who wrote under the name Graham Travers. A Glaswegian schoolteacher, she became a medical doctor in 1894 and practised at the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children, and lived with  Dr Sophia Jex-Blake as her  romantic partner and virtual disciple for 25 years. She committed suicide in 1918, six years after Jex-Blake’s death and a few months after seeing her biography of Jex-Blake in print.

She published six novels, this was her first, written while she was a student, a novel dealing with the life of a woman doctor, ostensibly a reply to Charles Reade’s  A Women Hater (1877), one of the first novels to feature a female doctor and a doctor clearly modelled on Jex-Blake, and stated to be an example of New Woman fiction, and may even be read as an example of Victorian lesbian fiction.

851 Pages in total

Condition
Sold as reading copies only, these are ex library with each volume having the stamp of Ticehurst lending library on front endpaper and last page. Bound in leather spines with cloth boards, worn and stained, pages have foxing etc, all complete.
Size of each volume 7¼ by 4¾ inches