Category: History
The Edinburgh Seven were the first group of matriculated undergraduate female students at any British university. In her essay Medicine as a Profession for Women, published in 1869, Sophia Jex-Blake argued that the only way to determine whether women had the same intellectual ability as men was through ‘a fair field and no favour’ – […]
Despite their Edinburgh experiences, all seven women left the University to make their mark on the world. Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake (1840–1912) Sophia Jex-Blake was the driving force behind the campaign to secure women access to a university education. She received her MD in Bern in 1877 and become the first registered female doctor in Scotland. […]