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BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell

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In Memory of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and Dr. Emily Blackwell. New York: Academy of Medicine, 1911.

“Medicine,” Time Magazine, 9 October 1944, pp. 90.

“The Lady Doctor from Geneva,” Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol 178, No. 11, 16 December 1961, pp. 126-127.

“150th Anniversary of the Birth of Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. Exhibit,” Library of Congress Information Bulletin, Vol. 29, No. 52, 31 December 1970.

Abram, Ruth J., Ed. Send us a Lady Physician : Women Doctors in America, 1835-1920. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1985.

Alvarez, Walter C. “Our First Woman Doctor,” Modern Medicine, 11 January 1971, pp. 98-101.

Baker, Rachel. The First Woman Doctor. New York: Messner, 1944.

Blackwell, Elizabeth. Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Auto-Biographical Sketches. New York: Longmans, Green, 1895.

----------------. Pioneer Work for Women. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1914.

Brown, Jordan. Elizabeth Blackwell: Physician. New York: Chelsea House, 1989.

Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 800, 880, 1176.

Chambers Peggy. A Doctor Alone: A Biography of Elizabeth Blackwell. London: Bodley Head, 1956.

DeLancey, Margaret Munro. “Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell’s Graduation--An Eye-Witness Account,” New York History, Vol. XLIII, No. 2, April 1962, pp. 182-185.

Fancourt, Mary St. John. They Dared to Be Doctors: Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. London: Longmans, 1965.

Flexner, Eleanore. Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States. Cambridge: Baelknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959.

Hays, Elinor. Those Extraordinary Blackwells. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1967.

Hume, Ruth. Great Women of Medicine. New York: Random House, 1964.

Iverson, Joan. “The Mormon-Suffrage Relationship: Personal and Political Quandaries,” Frontiers, Vol. XI, Nos. 2/3, 1990, pp. 8-16.

Johnston, Malcolm Sanders. Elizabeth Blackwell and her Alma Mater: the story in Documents. Geneva, New York: W. F. Humphrey Press, 1947.

Justin, Meryl S. “The Entry of Women into Medicine in America: Education and Obstacles 1847-1910,” Synthesis, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1978, pp. 31-46.

Latham, Jean Lee. Elizabeth Blackwell, Pioneer Woman Doctor. Champaign, Illinois: Garrand Publishing Company, 1956.

Link, Eugene P., Ph.D. “ Elizabeth Blackwell, Citizen and Humanitarian,” The Woman Physician, Vol. 26, No. 9, September 1971, pp. 451-458.

More, Ellen. “The Blackwell Medical Society and the Professionalization of Women Physicians,” Bulletin of History of Medicine, Vol. 61, No. 4, 1987, pp. 603-628.

Ross, Ishbel. Child of Destiny, the Life Story of the First Woman Doctor. New York: Harper, 1949.

Sahli, Nancy. “A Lost Portrait? Frank Duveneck Paints Elizabeth Blackwell,” Ohio History, Vol. 85, No. 4, 1976, pp. 319-325.

-----------------. “A Stick to Break Our Heads with: Elizabeth Blackwell and Philadelphia Medicine,” Pennsylvania History, Vol. 44, No. 4, 1977, pp. 335-347.

Symonds, Brandreth. “Hobart College and the Medical Profession,” The Medical Record, 29 October 1921, pp. 1-21.

Wilson, Dorothy Clark. Lone Woman: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.

FILM: The First Woman Doctor, starring Irene Dunn in the leading role, 1940.

STAMP: Issued 23 January 1974.


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Compiled by Charlotte Hegyi, Archivist. Contact Sarah Connor or Sara Greenleaf with questions.
Updated: 13 Sept., 2003