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90 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL.
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To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...
her tinued fellow th -students old her ; lf and aloof thoug from h , for ial obvious interco reasons urse w , ith she th still em , con yet - ,
o se whenever of their common the opportunity studiesthe of so alwa doing showe presented d themse itself lv in es the read course y and y y
anxious . to render her any , good offices in their power , and some of them The feeling amon of g her embarrassment truest friends which at this had day caused . her so much pain
soon on her modified first appearance by familiarit am y ong with her topics fellow form -students in ing the the subject was i , however in of t daily t ,
s an tud d y , d mira d was tion a exci t leng ted th by t t irel wonderfu y absorb l and beau g t iful meo g han eres ism of the human frame . But the suffering it had caused her , of her
viding d en trance ts onl a first int an o -class the institutio C medical olleg n , which suggested school she for to hopes the her receptio to the establish desirability n of in female course p stu ro of - y ;
time . with within But which thoug the walls h she the of was " lad the y regarded College student , t " in had sus the thus picious little admission made an town d good hosti to was her le curiosi position long suitable ty in
boarding subsiding -house . She ; could the heads not , at of first those , obtain establishments having a been threatened with the desertion of their " best" inmates if she were
receive from the d . College As she , audible went thro whispers ugh the of streets " Here , she on comes her wa ! " y to ru and de the laddoctor !
cries of " Come onBill ! let ' s have a good look at y- " would meet her ears , ; and not only idle boys , but well draw -dressed in little men
knots some and women s along tran , the w ould pavement ima p l lace from themselves , to anot see her her before lanet go by . , her as But thoug , or the h passage she up had of been the p
taking quiet-looking no notice g little of the figure rude , dressed people about With her ceased the , and utmost to looking excite simp remark neither licity ,
and to the when right she han had d nor been to the called left , graduall b y the wives of some of the ; professors , the most " respectable upon " of the y boarding-houses consented
to receive her as an inmate . Blockley ceeded During in Hosp the gaining ital College near permission vacation Philadel to , in hia reside the where summer as a she house continued of - 1848 student , to she in prose suc the - -
cute her studies , and , was engaged p in , active medical practice among her the patients first baby accouchement that in the with female , bring its colour wards ing safel . and It y "was into its pauper here the world that parentage she a poor performed , would little
probabl negro y— , as it seeme , d to her—have but skill small reason the to autumn thank her she ,
returned in after life to , for Geneva such an where exercise she of her leted . her In collegiate course , comp
during From the the following time when winter she . had first resolved to enter upon the
90 Elizabeth Blackwell.
90 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 90, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/18/
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