Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. She led the campaign to secure women access to a university education, when she began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869.
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A plaque commemorating the birthplace of Sophia Jex-Blake
Jex-Blake's application for matriculation, submitted to the University of Edinburgh, is held in their archives.
Bruntsfield Hospital, converted to private flats, 2010
Memorial to Sophia Jex-Blake in St Giles Cathedral
Historic Scotland commemorative plaque to the Edinburgh Seven and the Surgeons' Hall riotDoctors born in the 1840s 6
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Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. She led the campaign to secure women access to a university education, when she began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. She was the first practising female doctor in Scotland, and one of the first in the wider United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; a leading campaigner for medical education for women, she was involved in founding two medical schools for women, in London and Edinburgh, at a time when no other medical schools were training women.
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